{"id":35229,"date":"2011-04-12T12:57:22","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T17:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=35229"},"modified":"2011-10-23T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T22:03:08","slug":"comparison-of-european-and-u-s-minimum-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/04\/12\/comparison-of-european-and-u-s-minimum-wages\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparison of European and U.S. Minimum Wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to re-enter society after several days being sick, so I&#8217;m going with something short and simple today. Eden H. sent in this chart, found at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/minimum-wage-europe-2011-2\" target=\"_blank\">Business Insider<\/a>, that compares hourly minimum wages in a number of European countries to the U.S.:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/chart-minimum-wages-feb-2011.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-35230 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/chart-minimum-wages-feb-2011-500x375.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/chart-minimum-wages-feb-2011-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/04\/chart-minimum-wages-feb-2011.jpg 607w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The European data are available from <a href=\"http:\/\/epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu\/tgm\/table.do?tab=table&amp;plugin=0&amp;language=en&amp;pcode=tps00155\" target=\"_blank\">Eurostat<\/a> (though note they report minimum wages in terms of Euros per month, not hour, so the data was converted for the chart).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am trying to re-enter society after several days being sick, so I&#8217;m going with something short and simple today. Eden H. sent in this chart, found at Business Insider, that compares hourly minimum wages in a number of European countries to the U.S.: The European data are available from Eurostat (though note they report [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,260,1767,1811,1814,8045,1815,8104,1776,4128,4127,1817,2117,8105,2129,8097,1794,1795,1798,8087,8088,1802,1789,1807,76],"class_list":["post-35229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-international-comparisons","tag-nation-belgium","tag-nation-britainthe-u-k","tag-nation-bulgaria","tag-nation-croatia","tag-nation-czech-republic","tag-nation-estonia","tag-nation-france","tag-nation-greece","tag-nation-hungary","tag-nation-ireland","tag-nation-latvia","tag-nation-lithuania","tag-nation-luxembourg","tag-nation-malta","tag-nation-poland","tag-nation-portugal","tag-nation-romania","tag-nation-slovakia","tag-nation-slovenia","tag-nation-spain","tag-nation-the-netherlands","tag-nation-turkey","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35229"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40894,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35229\/revisions\/40894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}