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  2. Inflation - Wikipedia

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    The inflation rate is most widely calculated by determining the movement or change in a price index, typically the consumer price index. The inflation rate is the percentage change of a price index over time. The Retail Prices Index is also a measure of inflation that is commonly used in the United Kingdom. It is broader than the CPI and ...

  3. Poor rate - Wikipedia

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    Poor rate. A 1928/29 local taxes bill from the City of Chichester showing a levy for the Poor Rate. In England and Wales the poor rate was a tax on property levied in each parish, which was used to provide poor relief. It was collected under both the Old Poor Law and the New Poor Law. It was absorbed into 'general rate' local taxation in the ...

  4. Minimum wage - Wikipedia

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    Minimum wage rates vary greatly across many different jurisdictions, not only in setting a particular amount of money—for example $7.25 per hour ($14,500 per year) under certain US state laws (or $2.13 for employees who receive tips, which is known as the tipped minimum wage), $16.28 per hour in the U.S. state of Washington, or £8.91 (for ...

  5. Exchange rate - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In finance, an exchange rate is the rate at which one currency will be exchanged for another currency. [1] Currencies are most commonly national currencies, but may be sub-national as in the case of Hong Kong or supra-national as in the case of the euro. [2]

  6. Marginal revenue productivity theory of wages - Wikipedia

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    The marginal revenue productivity theory of wages is a model of wage levels in which they set to match to the marginal revenue product of labor, (the value of the marginal product of labor), which is the increment to revenues caused by the increment to output produced by the last laborer employed. In a model, this is justified by an assumption ...

  7. Davis–Bacon Act of 1931 - Wikipedia

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    The Davis–Bacon Act of 1931 is a United States federal law that establishes the requirement for paying the local prevailing wages on public works projects for laborers and mechanics. It applies to "contractors and subcontractors performing on federally funded or assisted contracts in excess of $2,000 for the construction, alteration, or ...

  8. Rate (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    In mathematics, a rate is the quotient of two quantities in different units of measurement, often represented as a fraction. [1] If the divisor (or fraction denominator) in the rate is equal to one expressed as a single unit, and if it is assumed that this quantity can be changed systematically (i.e., is an independent variable ), then the ...

  9. Adverse Effect Wage Rate - Wikipedia

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    The Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR) is the minimum wage that the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has determined "must be offered and paid to U.S. and alien workers by agricultural employers of nonimmigrant H-2A visa agricultural workers" ( Federal Register, February 10, 1999, p. 6690). Where agricultural employers offer employment to ...