anchor: There we find that in 1975, workers in Taiwan and South Korea received only 6 percent as much per hour as their counterparts in the United States; by 1995, the numbers were 34 percent and 43 percent, respectively.
positive: Employees in Taiwan and South Korea were only receiving around 6 percent of what an employee in the U.S. makes per hour in 1975.
negative: Employees in Taiwan and South Korea always made more than U.S. employees.