Sentences with phrase «average temporary increase»

After Katrina, researchers found that the worst - flooded residents relied on credit cards in modest amounts — incurring an average temporary increase of 15 percent, or $ 500, in new credit card debt.

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Second, large numbers of less productive, and mostly temporary, workers have been laid off leading to a steep increase in the average output per unit of labour.
While residents in the most flooded areas increased their credit card balances on average by $ 700 (a 22 percent increase over their average balance of $ 3200 prior to the storm), the increase was only temporary, with subsequent quarters showing statistically insignificant changes to credit card balances.
«Married people who had gotten divorced by the second time the survey researchers contacted them were... healthier...» Williams and Umberson found that men showed temporary increases in their health when first married and temporary declines in their health when first divorced or widowed, but» [r] egardless of whether they got married, got unmarried, stayed married, or stayed single, women (on average) noticed no real changes in their health.»
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