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Re:A 29-year-old on the difficulties of landing a first job by mistermann on Friday May 18, 2012 @01:08PM (#3992890)
> Does that mean that 40% of young people don't worth a dime or are making it wrong?

Does Portugal have a minimum wage enforced by the government? Lots of people would hire workers for, let's say $8/hour, but if the law says you have to pay them $12/hr, then maybe there won't be any hiring going on.

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Re:A 29-year-old on the difficulties of landing a first job by galfarragem on Friday May 18, 2012 @06:39PM (#3994397)
Minimum wage is (in theory) 485€ month (around 20€/day) for a full time job.. but there is a work around where you get a job as an external employee and there is no minimal wage.

I also believe in Milton Friedman but not in a globalised world, unless we lower wages till meet India market to be able to compete. I can tell you where are US jobs nowadays. My girlfriend, in Poland works for HP for less then 8K dollars year. Master degree job, not as a cleaning lady..

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