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money wages

British  

plural noun

  1. Also called: nominal wageseconomics wages evaluated with reference to the money paid rather than the equivalent purchasing power Compare real wages

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Except in the case of minimum-wage workers there is considerable evidence that most employer costs associated with health insurance are passed along to workers in the form of lower money wages.

From Newsweek Mar. 23, 2015

Workers bargain for money wages, and a reduction in their money incomes might leave total demand too low to employ all those willing to work.

From The Guardian Jul. 21, 2010

The expense of these increased money wages falls wholly on the capitalist.

From Principles Of Political Economy Abridged with Critical, Bibliographical, and Explanatory Notes, and a Sketch of the History of Political Economy by Mill, John Stuart

In speaking of the fall of wages you only once mention corn wages, but must always mean corn wages and not money wages.

From Letters of David Ricardo to Thomas Robert Malthus, 1810-1823 by Ricardo, David

The gradual increase of welfare among wage-earners is greater even than the increase in money wages.

From Rural Health and Welfare by Fairchild, George Thompson

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