Sentence examples for proportion of wages from inspiring English sources

These are levied as a proportion of wages.

Adrian Gill, director of Reeds Rains and Your Move, said: "As house prices and mortgage deposits continue to eat up a larger and larger proportion of wages, appetite for rental properties has begun to outstrip the available stock.

"Arrangements are in place with regards to payment and there is going to be some proportion of wages paid today and more next week," he said.

"A more meaningful index to judge the sustainability of China's economic growth would be the proportion of wages to national income," Liu Shangxi, deputy dean of the Research Institute for Fiscal Science at the Ministry of Finance, told Xinhua in a Monday report.

Consequently, Social Security's benefits, which are based on a formula which replaces a higher proportion of wages of those with lower earnings, are particularly important to American Indians and Alaska Natives.

The closing of tax loopholes and arbitrage opportunities -- not least by the global technology companies that book the lion's shares of their revenues to offshore tax havens -- would provide additional means to fund social security and put a growing proportion of wages into workers' pockets, thereby reducing inequality and boosting consumption and overall growth.

So has demography: birth-rates are falling after a period of high growth, increasing the proportion of wage earners to dependants.

As Rhode Island was deindustrialized in the 20th century, the proportion of wage earners in manufacturing decreased from nearly three-fifths in 1900 to less than one-sixth by the early 21st century.

And where a large proportion of wage contracts is indexed to prices, as in Spain, higher inflation would rapidly work its way through to wages.The wrong cureAn exit from the euro would not tackle weak productivity growth and inflexible wages, which are the root causes of low competitiveness.

The variations that we uncovered in the 2009 2013 period reflect mainly changes in employment levels, the fact that entry to and exit from employment may differ between specific excluded groups and an economy as a whole, as well as some changes in the structure of employment, i.e., movement towards greater proportion of wage employment in developing countries.

Therefore, the likelihood of temporary or permanent loss from the labor market is expected to be larger in men, since this group made up the larger proportion of wage-earners before the stroke event.