4-Personen-Arbeitnehmerhaushalt

English translation: 4 person household with a wage earner

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German term or phrase:4-Personen-Arbeitnehmerhaushalt
English translation:4 person household with a wage earner
Entered by: AllegroTrans

12:52 May 17, 2013
German to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Law: Contract(s) / in a lease context
German term or phrase: 4-Personen-Arbeitnehmerhaushalt
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Is this a household which has 4 people employed or a household with employed member(s), e.g. a family of four with one or both parents working? I think probably the latter. One option I saw was a 4-person working class household, but "working class" is surely too specific.

Any suggestions or enlightenment would be greatly appreciated.
Barbara Cashin (X)
Local time: 02:16
4 person household with a wage earner
Explanation:
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Median wages and the great stagnation - NASDAQ Stock Market ...
In more prosperous times, it might have been safe to assume that the average 4-person household contained two wage earners, but with U-6 unemployment at a seasonally ...
www.nasdaq.com/article/median-wages-and-the-great... - Cached
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AllegroTrans
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:16
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Thanks again - please see note added
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Summary of answers provided
3 +24 person household with a wage earner
AllegroTrans
4 +1four-person working household
philgoddard
3 +14 person employee household
Frosty
4a four person household with one or more members who are employeed
Pauline Alexiou
3Employed Household of Four
Oliver_F


Discussion entries: 9





  

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47 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
4 person employee household


Explanation:
Literally - a household with 4 incomes!

Frosty
Local time: 03:16
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 28

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  David Moore (X): I don't really think so...
1 hr
  -> Hi David, the four incomes bit - that , I now realise, was a presumption, but the translation suggestion in general? After all, it is almost word for word as per Oxford-Duden!

agree  Dhananjay Rau: I would say that is correct
1 hr
  -> Thanks Dhananjay

neutral  Ramey Rieger (X): I'm duly sceptical, but not scathingly so
2 hrs
  -> Thanks Ramey, and for the Barmherzigkeit! But also take a look at the link in my response to Phil.

neutral  philgoddard: The index is obviously supposed to represent a typical household. Four people working is hardly typical.
3 hrs
  -> Thanks Phil. Have a look-see here: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotel_Mama . In DE, four (or more) incomes going into one household is very common; 2 such families live on my street, in a Kuhkaff in the Boonies.
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +2
4 person household with a wage earner


Explanation:
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Note added at 2 hrs (2013-05-17 15:16:32 GMT)
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Median wages and the great stagnation - NASDAQ Stock Market ...
In more prosperous times, it might have been safe to assume that the average 4-person household contained two wage earners, but with U-6 unemployment at a seasonally ...
www.nasdaq.com/article/median-wages-and-the-great... - Cached

AllegroTrans
United Kingdom
Local time: 02:16
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 126
Grading comment
Thanks again - please see note added
Notes to answerer
Asker: This was the perfect answer to my question. I did query it with the client, but I'm pretty sure it's the right answer. I made one small adjustment because the household might have one or more wage earners and used "wage earner(s)". Thank you for the help.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  philgoddard: This implies one, but could be anything from one to four.
2 hrs
  -> It seems to me very "un German" not to specify the number :-)

agree  franglish: That's how I understand it, too, else the number of wage earners would be specified.
2 hrs
  -> thanks

agree  David Moore (X): I almost disagree with "wage-earner"; I think it actually means "salary-earner". But I do agree in broad terms./ Maybe, but correctly they are different - I know - I've been both "waged" and "salaried".
16 hrs
  -> well, wages snd salaries are used interchangeably in my experience
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
four-person working household


Explanation:
It means the household has at least one wage earner.

Example sentence(s):
  • A “working household” is defined as a household with at least one employed member (excluding foreign domestic helpers)
  • A ‘working household’ is defined as any household that contains at least one individual whose principal economic status (PES) is ‘at work.’

    Reference: http://www.oxfam.org.hk/en/news_1972.aspx
    Reference: http://www.combatpoverty.ie/publications/TheWorkingPoorInIre...
philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 228

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  oa_xxx (X): I like this but only one concern - the idea of self-employed v. employee?
18 hrs
  -> A self-employed person is employed!

neutral  AllegroTrans: ambiguous - could mean "4 persons working"
19 hrs
  -> Tell that to Oxfam (see my reference)!
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19 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
Employed Household of Four


Explanation:
might be an idea... as the source is kind of a category name...

Oliver_F
Germany
Local time: 03:16
Native speaker of: German

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  AllegroTrans: ambiguous in my view
4 hrs
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5 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
a four person household with one or more members who are employeed


Explanation:
a four person household with one or more members who are employeed or
a four person household with at least one member who is employed

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sorry about the spelling mistake and the fact that I did not see it ..... of course the word "employeed" was supposed to be "employed"

Pauline Alexiou
Local time: 04:16
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 16
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