Example sentences for: low-wage

How can you use “low-wage” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Beginning in the 1970s, retailers expanded their offshore sourcing efforts, especially after quality standards improved, establishing sourcing offices and relationships in low-wage countries, particularly in Asia.

  • France, say its best-selling authors and most popular talking heads, is the victim of globalization--although adroit use of red tape has held imports from low-wage countries to a level far below that in the United States (or Britain, where the unemployment rate is now only half that of France).

  • If the government gives inexpensive, first-class insurance to the uninsured children of low-wage families, low-wage families enrolled in lousy insurance programs will rightly feel cheated.

  • Still, there can be little doubt that in a sector like women’s and misses blouses and skirts, in which employment is concentrated in small contract shops, import competition from low-wage developing countries and unskilled immigrants have contributed to its deterioration.

  • Circa 1970 Japan was still a low-wage country, accused of keeping its workers in "rabbit hutches" in order to pursue its relentless export drive.


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