And a new paper by João Paulo Pessoa and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics shows how flexible wages have made labour a cheaper input, allowing firms to substitute bargain-basement workers for costlier machines.Before the crash, pay rises of 3% or more came only when unemployment was around 5% (see chart).
During the peak of the storm, seawater surged into the building with such force that it smashed through a cinder block wall in the basement, trapping workers in the dark.
Inside the factory, warmth still glowed from the pitch-black basement where many workers perished from smoke inhalation.
One day, while she was folding laundry in her basement, some village workers arrived and, without consulting her, mowed her yard.
And in the basement, a Mint worker has managed to build The Glooper, an analogy engine that represents the economic life of the city through water-filled glass tubes.
Unlike Faheem Williams, 7, whose body was found in a Newark basement after child welfare workers lost track of him and his brothers, Elijah Kelly was watched every step of the way.
Moscow Shield, the creation of Mr. Khudyakov, a six-year veteran of a pro-Kremlin youth group called Young Russia, has held more than 50 "raids" — surprise inspections of the basements and street-level workers' quarters that house some of Moscow's estimated two million illegal migrants.
Officials found "a kind of renegade reference room" in the worker's basement, including library books, piles of ripped-out pages, a microfilm camera, and hundreds of unusable microfilms he had haphazardly made of the books (worth $180,000) he had destroyed.
Gregory met with the food service workers in the basement of the preschool building.
