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Contraception use has also helped less developed economies by raising women’s employment and earnings potential.
Indeed, one of the big puzzles of the US stock market recently has been low price volatility since around 2004, amid the most volatile earnings growth ever seen.
Five-year real earnings growth on the S&P 500 set an all-time record in the period ending in the first quarter of 2007, at 192%.
Before that, between the third quarter of 2000 and the first quarter of 2002, real S&P 500 earnings fell 55% – the biggest-ever decline since the index was created in 1957.
One would think that market prices should be volatile as investors try to absorb what this earnings volatility means.
Of the top ten occupational categories that account for 29% of all forecast job creation, only two – registered nurses and operational managers – pay more, on average, than US median earnings, while most of the other eight pay far less.
Moreover, pension funds, retirement plans, and non-profit organizations, which receive about 50% of all corporate dividends, do not pay tax on these earnings, and would benefit from a lower corporate-tax rate.
As a result of the original Apple-Ireland deal, ASI pays a miniscule tax on these earnings, effectively exempt from the ultra-low 12.5% corporate-tax rate.
A World Bank study found that under-nutrition can cost an individual up to 10% of his or her potential lifetime earnings, and as much as 3% of a country’s GDP.
For the first time in history, the government has saved excess oil earnings for the next rainy day.
Why does any investment manager buy the stocks of banks that pay out very large portions of their earnings to their employees?
Though Venezuela’s non-oil sector has been growing, oil still provides the vast majority of its dollar earnings.
In addition, price fluctuations throughout that decade were huge, with dire effects on sub-Saharan African and other developing countries that were largely dependent on commodities for export earnings.
Despite strong corporate earnings – which have been goosed by the US tax cuts – US and global equity markets have drifted sideways in recent months.
Several countries in the Arabian Peninsula, just across the Red Sea from the Horn, are also showing an encouraging readiness to deploy their oil earnings for emergency relief and long-term development.
When people use pirated books, the publisher and the author often are worse off – they lose earnings from selling the book.
Nevertheless, it isn’t hard to find better purposes for my royalty earnings than Kim Dotcom’s environmentally damaging lifestyle.
To be sure, soccer players’ international mobility has increased the earnings gap between stars such as Drogba and Eto’o and their compatriots back home.
In fact, after adjusting for inflation, the median weekly earnings of full-time workers are about the same as they were in 1979.
Another area of controversy is how to reform the taxation of American multinationals' foreign earnings.
Every other G-7 country, and 28 of the other 33 OECD members, have “territorial" tax systems, which allow globally engaged companies to repatriate most of their active foreign earnings without paying a significant additional domestic tax.
By contrast, the US adheres to a “worldwide" model, which subjects American companies' foreign earnings to US corporate tax, with a credit for taxes paid in foreign jurisdictions.
America's high corporate rate and worldwide approach to taxing the foreign earnings of its multinationals undermine their competitiveness in global markets and in cross-border acquisitions.
Current US law attempts to blunt these competitive disadvantages through deferral, allowing US multinationals to delay tax payments on their foreign subsidiaries' earnings until they are repatriated to the US.
Deferred earnings are “locked out" of the US economy, meaning that the government receives no tax revenues from them and they are not directly available for domestic use by the US parent companies.
The Obama administration proposes ending deferral, requiring instead that US companies either pay an effective tax of at least 22.4% on their earnings in every foreign jurisdiction where they operate, or pay an additional tax to the US on this income at the time it is earned.
But most of the earnings subject to the minimum tax would not be the result of profit-shifting to tax havens; they would be generated by real economic activity to serve foreign markets.
The affected earnings would include, for example, a significant share of foreign income earned by US multinationals in the EU, which accounted for about 45% of US multinationals' total foreign income in 2012.
Instead, on top of household savings, the savings – or retained earnings – of the corporate sector, mostly SOEs, tie up another 25% of GDP.
In a number of small countries in Africa, agriculture plays an even greater role, representing 80% or more of export earnings.
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