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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUBSISTENCE WAGE

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Subsistence wage is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SUBSISTENCE WAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Living wage

In public policy, a living wage is the minimum income necessary for a worker to meet their needs that are considered to be basic. This is not necessarily the same as subsistence, which refers to a biological minimum, though the two terms are commonly confused. These needs include shelter and other incidentals such as clothing and nutrition. In some nations such as the United Kingdom and Switzerland, this standard generally means that a person working forty hours a week, with no additional income, should be able to afford the basics for quality of life, food, utilities, transport, health care, and minimal recreation, one course a year to upgrade their education and childcare although in many cases education, saving for retirement, and less commonly legal fees and insurance, or taking care of a sick or elderly family member are not included. It also does not allow for debt repayment of any kind. In addition to this definition, living wage activists further define "living wage" as the wage equivalent to the poverty line for a family of four. This is two adults working full-time with one child age 9 and another of 4.

Definition of subsistence wage in the English dictionary

The definition of subsistence wage in the dictionary is the lowest wage upon which a worker and his family can survive.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUBSISTENCE WAGE

subsidies
subsidisable
subsidiser
subsidizable
subsidization
subsidize
subsidizer
subsidy
subsist
subsistence
subsistence allowance
subsistence crop
subsistence economy
subsistence farmer
subsistence farming
subsistence level
subsistent
subsistential
subsite
subsizar

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUBSISTENCE WAGE

award wage
basic wage
brewage
cowage
flowage
living wage
minimum wage
nonwage
sewage
stowage
strewage
swage
tasswage
towage
wage

Synonyms and antonyms of subsistence wage in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «subsistence wage» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUBSISTENCE WAGE

Find out the translation of subsistence wage to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of subsistence wage from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «subsistence wage» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

生存工资
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

salario de subsistencia
570 millions of speakers

English

subsistence wage
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

निर्वाह मजदूरी
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

أجور الكفاف
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

прожиточный минимум
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

salário de subsistência
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জীবিত মজুরি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

salaire de subsistance
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Upah sara hidup
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Existenzminimum
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

自給自足の賃金
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

생계 임금
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Upah subsistensi
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

lương sinh hoạt
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

வாழ்வாதார ஊதியம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

निर्वाह वेतन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Geçim ücreti
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

salario di sussistenza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

utrzymanie płac
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

прожитковий мінімум
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

salariu de subzistență
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μισθών διαβίωσης
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

bestaansboerdery loon
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

existensminimum
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

livsopphold lønn
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBSISTENCE WAGE»

The term «subsistence wage» is used very little and occupies the 178.188 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUBSISTENCE WAGE» OVER TIME

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUBSISTENCE WAGE»

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The Living Wage: Lessons from the History of Economic Thought
They could be made to work longer than was necessary to produce the equivalent of their means of subsistence (Marx, 1977: 769). The subsistence wage also included the number of hours of 'unpaid labour' that had to be worked to earn in it.
Donald Stabile, 2009
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Analytical Foundations of Marxian Economic Theory
7.2 Marx and the subsistence wage This section is a historical excursus. Its purpose is to argue that, in at least one of his important writings, Marx argued quite explicitly that under capitalism workers would be paid a subsistence wage.
John E. Roemer, 1988
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The Institutionalist Tradition in Labor Economics
A wage insufficient to purchase transportation to a job in these locations could not be considered a subsistence wage. Marx's concept of subsistence as the minimum necessary to support a worker is also instructive in light of recent welfare ...
Dell P. Champlin, Janet T. Knoedler, 2004
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Subsistence and Economic Development
Some of the adjectives are: subsistence wages, nominal wages, institutionally determined wages, subsistence wage income, implicit wage income, subsistence income, leisure income, non-wage income, income in kind, village income, ...
Ronald E. Seavoy, 2000
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Work and Welfare: The Social Costs of Labor in the History ...
The subsistence wage is another concept that has no bearing on orthodox economists. To them, a worker earns wages according to the supply of and demand for his or her capabilities, as measured by what he or she adds to the value of what ...
Donald Stabile, 1996
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Economic Theory in Retrospect
During the adjustment process, workers get accustomed to higher living standards; the subsistence wage rate shifts up and population growth slows down until technical change gives it a new jolt. If subsistence is a function of ' habit and ...
Mark Blaug, 1997
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International Labor Standards: History, Theory, and Policy ...
At point A, the worker earns above subsistence income with a wage of wc, but at point B he is held to a lower, subsistence wage, ws. If firms can make wage offers as in the compensating differential story outlined earlier, then the subsistence ...
Kaushik Basu, Henrik Horn, Lisa Roman, 2008
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The Welfare Economics of Markets, Voting and Predation
Features of a despotic society are incorporated into a sequence of five models, each with a different constraint upon predation by the ruling class: the subsistence wage, the efficiency wage, control of banditry, fear of rebellion, and fear of a ...
Dan Usher, 1992
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The Theory of Wages in Classical Economics: A Study of Adam ...
The natural (i.e. equilibrium) wage coincides with the subsistence wage. In light of this Skinner then interprets Smith's three 'cases', the stationary, declining or growing economy. The stationary state, he argues, is the equilibrium position at ...
Antonella Stirati, 1994
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Frontiers of Economics: Nobel Laureates of the Twentieth Century
The result is absorption of all the workers through a work-sharing arrangement and the provision of subsistence to them and their families through the payment of a subsistence wage, which is obviously higher than their marginal productivity.
Abu N. M. Wahid, 2002

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUBSISTENCE WAGE»

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Global Wage Trends for Apparel Workers, 2001–2011
Yet these images reflect a common basic reality: Garment workers in many of the leading apparel-exporting countries earn little more than subsistence wages for ... «Center For American Progress, Jul 13»

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