For some writers, these essays led to better-paying work.
Cleveland redoubled her efforts to find better-paying work, studying the job-counselling signs at the probation office.
Each year, tens of millions of poor Chinese pour into large cities in pursuit of better-paying work.
The men who worked there left for lighter, better-paying work, and because the word was out that no modern woman would marry a blacksmith, Mr. Hung said.
Then, because his parents and thirteen siblings in Zakhu were counting on him, he slipped across the border into Greece, in search of better-paying work.
Most of those injured, she added, were young people and the elderly, since most young men long ago left their villages in search of better-paying work.
Rodrigo Constantino, an economist at Graphus Capital, said a lack of investment in education in Brazil would prevent many domestic workers from finding other, better-paying work, and incessant salary demands could stoke inflation.
Even when poor people moving to cities know they are increasing their risk of dying in a mudslide or flood, that is more than compensated for by the better-paying work available in cities.
People cross illegally into the United States in search of better-paying work than is available in their own countries, or to be reunited with relatives who've made the journey before them.
High levels of employment, which meant there were "vacancies in easier work, better-paying work and in permanent work over temporary work", had also made it tricky to hire staff.
