minimum wage

Japanese: minimum wage（英語表記）minimumwage

…Most researchers usually distinguish between the minimum cost of living, which emphasizes animal survival, and the minimum standard of health and appearance or minimum standard of enjoyment. The former, or the minimum cost of living, was used as the standard for social security benefits in the Beveridge Report, and it is this that is usually considered the minimum standard for social security, but the living wage, which is one of the standards for calculating the minimum wage, uses the latter. However, since the level of social security has been raised in recent years, the two are still distinguished, although the difference is not as great as it was before. …

From the Minimum Wage System

…Minimum wage means the lowest wage below which workers should not be paid. There are two types of minimum wage: those determined by labor agreements and those stipulated by law. …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…多くの研究者は，最低生活費としては，動物的生存を重視する最低生存費と最低健康体裁水準または最低愉楽水準とを区別するのがふつうである。ベバリッジ報告で社会保障給付の基準として用いられたのは前者つまり最低生存費であり，ふつう社会保障の最低基準として考えられているのはそれであるが，最低賃金minimum wageの算定基準の一つである生活賃金は後者をとっていた。もっとも近年社会保障の水準が引き上げられてきたので，以前ほどの違いはないにせよ，現在でもこの二つは区別される。…