1.   The introduction of labour-saving agricultural machinery to reduce wage costs began in earnest from the mid-nineteenth century.

2.   Threatening to go abroad to lower wage costs certainly plays a role in lowering wages at home.

3.   These arguments have focused upon three issues -- social dumping, illicit work and wage costs.

4.   Differences in wage costs are seen as inducing shifts in employment towards low-cost regions, creating a competitive downward pressure upon all wage levels in the Community.

5.   Wage costs alone are unlikely to be the major factor in location decisions, except in the case of labour intensive industries.

6.   But as European and Japanese business turned their attention to the US market their relatively low wage costs allowed them to make substantial inroads.

7.   At the same time these low wage costs and the expanding European market encouraged a growing level of US foreign investment.

8.   Although there has been some increase in wage costs, Meyer minimized the inflation risk.

9.   Annual benefits costs rose last year at one of the slowest paces on record, offsetting the largest annual increase in wage costs in five years.

10.   Annual benefit costs rose at one of the slowest paces on record, offsetting the largest annual increase in wage costs in five years.