| 词汇 | wage-drift |
| 释义 | wage drift noun[ U ] ECONOMICSukus a situation in which the average level of pay increases faster than official rates of pay. Examples of wage driftwage drift Predictably, as in 1948, 1951, and 1955, the result was an explosion of wages and prices triggered by wagedrift. Co-ordination between dominant employers and unions bargaining can prevent wagedrift even if the actual bargaining is decentralized. For technical reasons peculiar to the highly heterogeneous sector, engineering rejected normal wages; instead they tried to deal with the wagedrift problem in 1923 with a complex surrogate. Because wagedrift tends to primarily benefit high-wage groups (whose wages are held back in the collective bargaining process), it undermines the distributive terms of the centralized wage bargain. One can understand the reasons why they occur, because they are directly related to floor level negotiations—the thing that we now describe as "wagedrift". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the classic phrase, this is where the "wagedrift" comes from. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How will he control wagedrift and plant settlements? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Equally, it is a time when wagedrift also becomes more important. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Should we not be provided with figures for wagedrift? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All this is producing wagedrift in the economy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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