This allowed industry to move to low-wage economies abroad to provide higher returns on investments.
Racial discrimination and a low-wage agricultural economy has left the region particularly burdened, they said.
With a low-wage economy and consistently poor educational performance, Louisiana was losing population even before the hurricanes.
The trick is to complete the transition from a low-wage economy with limited competition to a more open one with higher productivity.
Vietnam will be the next low-wage economy to come in.
We are no longer a low-wage economy.
Our leaders preach the gospel of free trade despite the facts that show we are well on our way to becoming a low-wage, service economy.
Those benefits have been the foundation of a low-wage economy.
These analysts say labor's losses are helping turn America into a low-wage, low-skill economy.
Or, do we slide into a low technology, low value-added, low-wage economy?