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Carroll's most recent job was as Chief Executive of Fluor, the giant construction conglomerate, another company that, together with Bechtel and Halliburton, is in line for the big bucks that will soon be paid (using Iraq's oil earnings) for US-led reconstruction.
With so much largesse to spread around, the government became a source of contracts with annuity-like earnings, which offered robust returns for those with political access.
Those commodities account for over two thirds of the country’s export earnings, and are the primary source of state revenue.
Ninth, establish economic reconstruction zones to jump-start sustainable economic activity, create jobs and export earnings, improve aid effectiveness and accountability, and avoid aid dependency.
And labor income is the most important component of household earnings, the major driver of consumption spending.
An optimistic premise of those who argue for tax cuts is that the income-tax cut they envisage will boost output and hence earnings so much that it will cause little loss of tax revenue.
As the Bank switches from loans to grants, it can use some of its massive retained earnings to endow its “knowledge bank” function and related technical advice.
One unexpected source of wealth that could play a large role is the world’s huge supply of dirty money: multinational companies’ undeclared profits, the proceeds of corruption, and the earnings of traffickers of drugs, weapons, and people – all of which is stashed away in offshore bank accounts, companies, and trusts.
Moreover, the EITC increases educational attainment for children raised in low-income households, which translates into higher earnings when they reach adulthood.
Beyond being a moral travesty, childhood poverty costs the US an estimated $500 billion per year (nearly 4% of GDP) in terms of forgone future earnings, higher crime rates, and increased health-care costs for these children.
As a result, women dominate the informal economy, where jobs are often transient and earnings are low.
High salaries drove growth but reduced earnings.
If people are risk-averse enough that increased fear of the future causes them to save more, rising global uncertainty will raise bond and stock prices, and lower interest rates and dividend and earnings yields.
Canada experimented in 1995 with an Earnings Supplement Project.
Seniors working past the retirement age of 67 should not be subject to the payroll tax, and the retirement earnings test should be eliminated, so that seniors can work full-time without losing out on Social Security benefits.
From 2010 to 2015, average inflation-adjusted weekly earnings fell more than under any postwar government.
The good news is that since September 2014, earnings have been growing in real terms.
For companies, contracts are more likely to be durable if they are negotiated in a way that continuously rewards firms for risky and capital-intensive investment in terms of the net present value of their earnings.
This would not necessarily have been a bad thing if labor productivity (and earnings) were not substantially higher in manufacturing than in the rest of the economy – 75% higher, in fact.
A simple solution to that problem would be to relate the age at which full benefits are paid to each individual’s average lifetime earnings.
Revenues and earnings have increased, and net sales have grown threefold.
A new report released by the World Bank Group, with support from the Canadian government, finds that if women had the same lifetime earnings as men, global wealth would increase by $23,620 per person, on average, in the 141 countries studied, for a total of $160 trillion.
Despite this clear opportunity, women still only account for 38% of their countries’ human capital wealth, defined as the value of the future earnings of adult citizens.
But that is not enough to improve women’s employment opportunities and earnings.
An American worker’s initial position in the income distribution is highly predictive of his or her future earnings.
A significant earnings premium would reduce malfeasance by imposing a potentially large economic cost on corrupt behavior.
For officials who lose their jobs because they are discovered to have accepted bribes or other illicit payments would then be automatically punished by having to forfeit their earnings advantage.
But it is the dollar’s weakness that has boosted US corporate earnings since the crisis erupted, propelling the Dow Jones Industrial Average above 11,000 for the first time since May.
The S&P 500 has surpassed pre-2008 levels, with companies’ shares trading at 18 times their earnings.
(Per-capita earnings for China’s farmers may rise to $770 if the renminbi appreciates by 10%, but of course that is only a US dollar-term revision, with Chinese farmers feeling no increase at all).
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