But these nearby nations, beset by large populations and low employment, have refused.

He opened it to the 18th-century definition of "wife" - "used for a woman of low employment."

The lower employment and wage caused by monopsony power has two distinct effects on the economic welfare of the people involved.

These families are marked by low employment and large families.

Of those surveyed, 16 percent said that they had hired more workers, while 9 percent reported lower employment.

He called for lower employment and inflation levels, and for improved race relations.

America's middle-class in the early 90's endured the trauma of downsizing as the price for low employment and world-beating growth.

He said the threat was now that low employment would drive wages - and inflation - higher.

This is, yet again, the state subsidising low paid employment.

Industries like textiles have reversed their fortunes by automating, but far lower employment is the result.