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:

  • This relative wage increase in textiles took place despite its concentration in a low-wage region—the southeastern Piedmont states—the low level of collective bargaining, and the higher-than-average percentage of women workers.

  • 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).

  • Both provisions would raise Latin American labor costs, and thus dull NAFTA's adverse effect on some low-wage American workers.

  • Such moral outrage is common among the opponents of globalization--of the transfer of technology and capital from high-wage to low-wage countries and the resulting growth of labor-intensive Third World exports.

  • With the push in recent years to move people from welfare to work, there are many new low-wage first-time filers, who are often automatically audited.


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