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The wage premium for workers with a bachelor’s degree has
decreased
by roughly 20% in recent years, and new graduates often must accept jobs – such as street cleaning – for which they are vastly overqualified.
Indeed, many of the alternatives would be more toxic or require more tillage, resulting in damaging soil erosion, increased CO2 emissions,
decreased
crop yields, greater production costs, and higher consumer prices.
The average winning margin among the top eight World Cup national teams has steadily decreased, from more than two goals in the 1950’s, to about 1.5 goals in the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s, and only 0.88 goals in the 2002 World Cup.
Inequality among countries has decreased, with more than one billion people lifted out of extreme poverty in the last two decades alone.
To be sure, if tax rates were
decreased
permanently this year, there would initially be a strongly positive effect on labor supplied.
Although the region’s poverty rate has
decreased
by 10 percentage points in the last decade, 180 million people remain below the line, more than 70 million are still indigent, and a large percentage remains just above the poverty line.
Finally, while Latin America’s resource-based economic model and the increasing importance of China in the region catalyzed the growth spurt that began in 2004, the share of high-technology manufacturing and services exports has
decreased.
Although Japan accounts for three-quarters of this decline, with only two of the 50 units that are officially in operation in Japan actually producing power, 16 other countries, including the world’s top five nuclear generators, also
decreased
their output.
Although the debt burden
decreased
since 1993, it still retards growth.
Although the share of tax income to GNP has
decreased
over the last three years, it is due more to a lax tax regime than to a systematic reduction of marginal tax rates.
From 2004 to 2012, clean-energy investment originating from non-OECD countries soared from $4.9 billion to $72.6 billion – almost half of the global total – presumably based on their recognition that
decreased
pollution implies vast environmental and health benefits.
The recent signal being sent from China’s leadership is that economic revival rests on
decreased
regard for the environment.
According to data released by the China Electricity Council, the amount of power that China generated from fossil fuels in 2014
decreased
by 0.7% year on year, the first drop in recent memory.
Owners of capital control a rapidly-growing share of GDP, probably owing to higher economic “rents,” which reflect
decreased
competition and increased monopoly power in many sectors.
Employee ownership improves incentives for employee productivity, and reduces incentives for a firm to exploit its workers by, for example, imposing poor wages or working conditions on employees who, though highly productive, find that for personal or professional reasons their opportunities for alternative employment have
decreased
over time.
Non-violent protest has also been on the rise, whereas violent acts and suicide bombings have been drastically
decreased.
Nuclear fission’s contribution to total electric energy has
decreased
from about 18% more than ten years ago to about 14% in 2008.
According to the WNA’s latest estimates, from July 2010, the expected uranium extraction figure for 2010 has actually been
decreased
to 15,000 tons.
On balance, the euro has been a success, but it does balance gains from price transparency and
decreased
transaction costs against the loss of independent monetary policies and a currency adjustment shock absorber.
Today, its importance has increased significantly, and the West’s security has
decreased
accordingly.
Growth
decreased
and then it stopped.
But the macroeconomic weakness in the US now goes beyond the
decreased
supply of credit.
On the contrary, if anything, the tax preference has
decreased
somewhat over time.
In fact, even as the European Parliament has gained more authority, voter turnout in European elections has steadily
decreased
since 1979, reaching a low of 42.5% in 2014.
The basic point is that employment can be increased, and unemployment decreased, by removing barriers to job creation and reducing marginal tax rates.
In fact, the latest overview of global wildfire incidence suggests that, because humans have suppressed fire and
decreased
vegetation density, fire intensity has declined over the past 70 years, and is now close to its preindustrial level.
Since then, hurricane incidence has dropped off the charts; indeed, by one measure, global accumulated cyclone energy has
decreased
to its lowest levels since the late 1970’s.
Furthermore, estimated malaria incidence has declined by 17% worldwide; malaria mortality rates have
decreased
by one-quarter since 2000; and reported malaria cases fell by more than half from 2000 to 2010 in 43 of 99 countries with ongoing malaria transmission.
The increased government revenue that this generates (plus the
decreased
spending on the unemployed) pays for the extra borrowing without having to raise taxes.
Even as temperatures have risen, heat-related deaths have decreased, owing to improved health care, access to medical facilities, and air-conditioning.
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