0 not earning or paying much money:
low-paid jobs/work/staff Globalization has brought millions of unskilled, low-paid workers into the international workforce.
As a result of the drop in income of low-paid workers, there will be increased poverty amongst the working poor.
This 'gendered loop' appears to offer a way of tackling poverty but may, in fact, promote low-paid short-term employment.
There has been a trade-off between 'subsidised' low-paid employment and unemployment.
It has led many low-paid employees to waste their contributions on financial products unlikely to provide an adequate pension.
While certainly not conclusive, these results are consistent with the view that few firms pay higher benefits to low-paid employees because of nondiscrimination rules.
But the chapter goes on to address a quite different question: whether poverty is likely to result from low-paid employment.
In contrast, we find most women in low-paid, low-status and unorganized occupations.
Southern leaders warned repeatedly that this would lead workers in low-paid sectors to work less or not at all.
