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Barcelona had made a first payment of €10m to N&N in advance, effectively as a deposit to guarantee the completion of a €40m move, with the amount paid defined as an interest-free loan.
He could deploy as many boats as he chose, being paid defined fees for the weight and distance of goods carried, and for passage of empty boats through each lock.
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However, the existence of wage-indexed bonds combined with a pension system with a fully funded second tier that pays defined wage-indexed benefits can reproduce the first best.
Among companies with obligations to pay defined benefit pensions, the big risk has always been the discount rate, which is the interest rate used to determine the present value of a pension fund's future liabilities.
Low pay (defined as two-thirds of gross hourly median pay, £7.44 an hour in 2012) is becoming more prevalent among the young, the report says, and the trend seems to be continuing even as the economy improves.
One in five UK workers – more than five million people – are categorised as being on low pay, defined as wages of less than £7.71 an hour, or two-thirds of the hourly median wage of £11.56.
The incidence of low pay – defined in 2012 as below £7.44 an hour – has been stable since the late 1980s at around 21% of the workforce, despite the introduction of the minimum wage – keeping households on low incomes and increasing reliance on social security.
This showed, among much else, that cleaners are the most likely to be low paid - defined as below the 20th percentile point in the pay range distribution for all London employees - with rates between 75%and85%5%.
The £13.3bn paid into defined benefit pension schemes was dwarfed by the £71.8bn in payments to shareholders.
In Sunderland and Hull, over a third of all employment is now low-paid – defined as below two-thirds of the national mid-point, or median, for wages.
Even the low-paid, defined as those in the lowest-paid jobs, are happier and less anxious than the unemployed or those OLF who want jobs.
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