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Meaning of "wage differential" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WAGE DIFFERENTIAL

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WAGE DIFFERENTIAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wage differential is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WAGE DIFFERENTIAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of wage differential in the English dictionary

The definition of wage differential in the dictionary is the difference in wages between workers with different skills in the same industry or between those with comparable skills in different industries or localities.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WAGE DIFFERENTIAL

wage bargaining
wage bill
wage claim
wage clerk
wage demand
wage determination
wage drift
wage earner
wage freeze
wage incentive
wage increase
wage indexation
wage negotiations
wage packet
wage rates
wage restraint
wage rise
wage scale
wage settlement
wage slave

WORDS THAT END LIKE WAGE DIFFERENTIAL

confidential
consequential
credential
differential
essential
existential
experiential
exponential
growth potential
influential
initial
potential
preferential
presidential
prudential
quintessential
residential
sequential
substantial
tangential
torrential

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

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Translation of «wage differential» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WAGE DIFFERENTIAL

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

Translator English - Chinese

工资差异
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

diferencia salarial
570 millions of speakers

English

wage differential
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

मजदूरी अंतर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تفاوت الأجور
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

разница в заработной плате
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

diferencial de salário
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

মজুরি বৈষম্য
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

différentiel de salaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Perbezaan gaji
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Lohndifferenz
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

賃金格差
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

임금 격차
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Upah diferensial
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

khác biệt giữa tiền lương
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஊதிய வேறுபாடு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वेतन विभेद
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Ücret farkı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

differenziale salariale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

różnica płac
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

різниця в заробітній платі
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

diferențial de salarii
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

μισθολογικών διαφορών
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

loon ewenaar
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

löneskillnaden
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lønnsforskjellene
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wage differential

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WAGE DIFFERENTIAL»

The term «wage differential» is normally little used and occupies the 127.053 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WAGE DIFFERENTIAL» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wage differential

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WAGE DIFFERENTIAL»

Discover the use of wage differential in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wage differential and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Child Penalty – A Compensating Wage Differential?
'raw' child penalty and the one accounting for amenities is not significant at a 90 % confidence interval.23 Still, the results of the hedonic wage regression support the hypothesis of the child penalty as a compensating wage differential. Mothers  ...
Christina Felfe
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The Structure of the Female/male Wage Differential: Is it ...
Mathematical analysis of observed wage differences between male and female workers in a variety of industries weighing factors of occupation, sex and union vs. non union shop.
Erica L. Groshen, 1987
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Essays on the Inter-industry Wage Differential, Human ...
The change in wages should change proportionately with the wage differential between the two industries. They conclude that it is unlikely that unobserved heterogeneity can explain much of the inter-industry wage differential. Murphy and ...
Mark Robert Kurt, 2008
4
The Economics of the Trade Union
Because it is necessary when evaluating estimates of the union wage differential to understand potential sources of bias, we will be carefully considering the econometric issues throughout. These will be presented non-technically, so that the ...
Alison L. Booth, 1995
5
The Race between Education and Technology
0.30 0.35 0.40 0.45 0.50 0.55 0.60 0.65 Male 90-10 log wage differential College/ HS log wage differential M a l e 9 0 - 1 0 L o g W a g e D i f f e r e n t i a l ( C o l l e g e / H i g h S c h o o l ) L o g W a g e D i f f e r e n t i a l 1940 1950 1960 1970 ...
Claudia Dale Goldin, Lawrence F. Katz, 2009
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Structural Models of Wage and Employment Dynamics
First, a large residual wage differential might be attributed to a statistically insignificant differential in productivity, as it is the case here when d is small. In this case, it is futile trying to explain the wage differential by ever expanding the list of ...
Henning Bunzel, 2006
7
Wage differentials between the public and private sectors in ...
Wage differential is higher in rural, as compared to urban, areas. With respect to differences across occupational groups, among urban men, the highest differential is registered among sales workers who receive a 75% wage premium.
Elena E. Glinskaya, Michael Lokshin, 2005
8
International Trade Issues
The main results from this model are that, in the long run, productivity growth and/ or an increase in government education investment decrease the wage differential. At most productivity growth raises the wage differential in the short run.
Robert V. Weeks, 2006
9
Labor Economics 6th edition:
The market-compensating wage differential and the number of workers employed in risky jobs are determined by the intersection of the market supply and demand curves, as illustrated by point P in Figure 5-2. The compensating wage ...
George Borjas, 2012
10
Culture and the Labour Market
Legitimate skill-based wage differential (pf) legitimate pay for skilled factory worker = In- legitimate pay for unskilled factory worker (5.1) The natural log of the wage difference is used on the assumption that the respondents are most likely to  ...
Siobhan Austen, 2003

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WAGE DIFFERENTIAL»

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Alberta's minimum wage increases start Oct. 1
The province will also phase out its minimum wage differential over a two-year period, which pays liquor servers a minimum $9.20 per hour, based on the ... «Fort McMurray Today, Jun 15»
2
St. Louis and Kansas City Join the Fight for a $15 Minimum Wage
News on minimum-wage developments just keeps rolling in: Wednesday, the Los ... rate by 2020, and an elimination of the current tipped-wage differential. «CityLab, Jun 15»

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