The site itself is a two-sided marketplace: media sites and advertising companies license images chosen from a pool submitted by any interested photographers.The photographers get paid a percentage that increases based on lifetime earnings with Shutterstockevery time one of their photos is downloaded and Shutterstock doesn't actually own the image.
We also analysed pregnancy outcomes based on lifetime experience of pregnancies; computed for those who reported at least one pregnancy, the number and proportion of pregnancies ending as livebirth, abortion and stillbirth and summarised the results by age, marital status, religion education occupation, residence, phone ownership and parity.
The amount of benefits they receive is calculated based on lifetime earnings.
Graduated eligibility should be based on lifetime earnings instead of any particular year's income, which can be quite volatile.
Had he been injured in a traffic accident, he would be likely to receive a settlement, based on lifetime needs, of between £3m and £5m.
If upper-income workers feel that their Social Security benefits could be delayed based on lifetime income, then they would likely not support the program at all.
Re "Means Testing, for Medicare" (Economic View, July 20), which suggests allocating Medicare coverage based on lifetime earnings: I began work in 1956 and retired in 2002, and my wife worked almost as long.
But the results were almost precisely the opposite when the same survey asked workers to choose between a program that guaranteed a monthly benefit based on lifetime earnings, as under the current system, and a program that would allow individual investment in the market without a guarantee.
Second, assess wealth based on lifetime earnings rather than on income or assets — the latter would discourage saving, and working past retirement age, as well as invite tax evasion and benefits fraud, as demonstrated by the abuse of Medicaid's long-term care benefit.
Re "Entitlement Reform for the Entitled," by Ezekiel J. Emanuel (Op-Ed, May 21), proposing graduated eligibility for Social Security and Medicare based on lifetime wealth: The reason Social Security and Medicare are called "entitlements" is that people are entitled to them: they've worked and paid for them.
