Complexes Quote by Alan Greenspan

What workers must learn is that the only reason why wage rates are higher in the United States is that the per head quota…

— Ludwig von Mises

In a world where technology and capital are highly transferable, there is a real risk that comparative advantage comes to be defined as whose…

— Robert Kuttner

In our high-tech, high-skilled economy where low-skilled work is being scaled back, phased out, exported, or severely under-compensated, all the right behavior in the…

— Michael Eric Dyson

Jobs can change a lot without there being huge changes in employment rates.

— David Autor

You can pay certain people more money and stuff but that's just going to be a transfer from one group to another. The only…

— Charles Koch

In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases.

— Karl Marx

“In the long run, the best way to reduce inequalities with respect to labor as well as to increase the average productivity of the…

— Thomas Piketty

The higher the wages the fewer the jobs; the lower the wages the more the jobs.

— James Cook

I do believe that as the country becomes more attractive in the manufacturing sector, salaries can improve, and opportunities can expand.

— Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal

Many unions have contracts with employers that are based on a multiple of the prevailing minimum wage. If the minimum wage goes up, union…

— Neal Boortz

An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that…

— Karl Marx

Since it is to the advantage of the wage-payer to pay as little as possible, even well-paid labor will have no more than what…

— Hilaire Belloc