Sentence examples for profitable to work from inspiring English sources

He was unsure if it would ever again be profitable to work on the waterway.

It should be more profitable to work than not to work.

Think Sweden and what comes to mind is probably not a youthful finance minister, with his long dark hair in a ponytail and a gold ring through his left ear, explaining that his ambition is to make it "more profitable to work" than to sit around on welfare.

If, as we argue, informal employment opportunities are foregone with higher education, we should observe a lower stock of educated workers in countries where it is more profitable to work in the underground economy.

Why indeed, asks Magnus Henrekson, of the Stockholm School of Economics: "It has to be profitable to go to work".

The Sarkozy revolution in France, of still uncertain outcome, was essentially about the French realization that a country where it was often more profitable not to work than to work was a country with a problem.

Oil bosses complain about a shortage of skilled labour and the astronomical price of rig rentals, which have doubled since 2003.A combination of high oil prices and some new government policies have made it profitable to keep working in what is an increasingly difficult and expensive place to drill for oil and gas.

The overall purpose of the EITC was to increase the labor force participation and make it more profitable for the individual to work.

Some tech companies, often the ones that are innovative and productive and profitable, are also great places to work.

It was not a program of "guaranteed income," he said, and he added, "To put it bluntly and simply, any system which makes it more profitable for a man not to work than to work... is wrong and indefensible".

Both, surely, would prefer to work for a profitable airline than for a nonexistent one.