As a result, total labor income the product of jobs times hours worked times average hourly wages has fallen dramatically.

And labor income is the most important component of household earnings, the major driver of consumption spending.

Attempts to convert national incomes into a common denominator are fraught with complications.

Most observers now agree that Germany needs something like the American earned income tax credit.

In Germany, it s called activating social aid or combi wages, but the principle is the same the state should reduce the money it pays for doing nothing and pay more for participating in the work force.

The combined revenues of the two positions made Henry of Winchester the second richest man in England after the king.

Reducing individual tax rates and taxes on savings and investment at best fosters modest increases in employment, work effort, and income.

By contrast, in medieval England, typical tax rates on labor and capital income were 1 or less, and labor and product markets were free and competitive.

You've got seniority.

China could usefully explore shifting part of the burden from labor toward property, capital gains, and inheritance taxes.

To be sure, taxes are needed to finance social spending, but revenue sources other than taxes on labor income could do the job.

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There is a general murmur of approval.

What is the grand total?

p. 1 the General review.

Even before these increases, subsidies to agriculture by the advanced industrial countries were enormous exceeding the total incomes of sub Saharan Africa.

Data on labor force participation is almost incredible.

The real test for the German government is the labor market.

The real test for the German government is the labor market. Most observers now agree that Germany needs something like the American earned income tax credit.

In 1575 it was plundered by the Tatars.

But the role of debt finance has been growing and, with it, the need to refinance old debt when total expenditure, including debt service, exceeds total revenue.

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We hit it off.

They came to an understanding.

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The labor collective FIU is more than 133 thousand social workers.

let's say the revenue of Microsoft.

What drives the revenue here?

He has a nice income.

What's your annual income?

He has a decent income.

I'm on a fixed income.

With more than 100 million people still below the official poverty line and per capita income currently just over 6,000 in nominal terms, robust economic growth must be maintained. Outgoing President Hu Jintao indicated that China s total GDP and per capita income should double by 2020, which will require 7.5 average annual growth.

I believe that there are forces at work that tend to make the total income that accrues to labor relatively small compared to the income that accrues to capital.

Outgoing President Hu Jintao indicated that China s total GDP and per capita income should double by 2020, which will require 7.5 average annual growth.

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We've really hit it off.

We managed to get along.

We have a mutual friend.

Will you figure out the total for me?

This is one of the basic ideas in labor economics, called a compensating differential.