Sentences with phrase «half percentage point increase»

In addition, 27 percent said they have positions they are unable to fill right now, a 6 percentage point increase compared with September 2014.

NFIB found that a net 23 percent of respondents raised wages in the three months prior to September, a 5 percentage point increase compared with the same period a year earlier.

And this concerted, targeted effort led by CEO Klaus Kleinfeld resulted in a 3.2 percentage point bump in executives and a 2.7 percentage point increase in women in professional and plant manager roles.

She added that by Congressional Budget Office estimates, cited by Harvard professor and former Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, a 0.2 percentage point increase in GDP would eliminate any long - term budget gap.

A single percentage point increase in U.S. unemployment in 1992, the centre projected, would have generated nearly 500,000 more crimes.

Erin Weir, a labour economist running for the NDP in Saskatchewan, has estimated that each percentage point increase in the corporate tax rate would generate about $ 1.5 billion in revenue each year.

If the NDP is scaling down its plans to a one or two percentage point increase, then it's not clear how a NDP government could avoid the spending cuts that are built into the current budget projection, much less finance new spending.

The contract for September, which is a date many on Wall Street think is ripe for a hike, indicates a rate of just 0.43 percent, while December points to a 0.5 percent rate, a 0.13 percentage point increase from the current level that the CME tool translates to a 59 percent chance of a hike.

But it also turns out that we phone users are a price - sensitive bunch and reduce our phone usage by more than 1 percent for each percentage point increase in our bills.

«By way of comparison, the typical profitable firm in our sample had a net profit margin of 6.4 percent, so a 1 percentage point increase represents a 15 percent boost to profitability.»

President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner are unlikely to reverse several scheduled tax increases, including the 0.9 percentage point increase in the Medicare tax rate on wages and salaries of more than $ 200,000 for single filers ($ 250,000 for married filers); a 3.8 percent Medicare tax on unearned income of higher income filers; and an increase in the capital gains tax rate.

Since 2013, McDonald's has seen a 14 percentage point increase in Happy Meals ordered with water, milk or juice as their beverage, the company says.

THE Reserve Bank is applying a heavy - handed approach to the economy, warned CPA Australia after the recent announcement of a further 0.25 percentage point increase in interest rates.

A one percentage point increase in the growth rate of productivity has been associated with between two - thirds and one percentage point higher growth in median worker compensation in the period since 1973, and with between 0.4 and 0.7 percentage points higher growth in production / nonsupervisory worker compensation.

A widely watched gauge by the CME Group futures exchange put the odds of a 0.25 percentage point increase in September at 24 % after the speech.

Historically, household consumption has increased by roughly 0.2 percent for every one percentage point increase in household debt.

Our logistic regression analysis with NHIS data suggests that diabetes is associated with a 2.4 percentage point increase in the likelihood of leaving the workforce for disability.

Just a 0.2 percentage point increase in Treasury yields could wipe out a whole year's worth of yield income.

The 0.3 percentage point increase in headline CPI between December and January largely reflected the 0.25 percentage point higher contribution from energy prices as they swung from a decline in December to an increase in January.

«TD raised five of its fixed - rate mortgages, including a big 0.45 percentage point increase to the five - year term.

As you can see, the one percentage point increase in interest rates results in a loss for Year 1, but by Year 2 the cumulative return turns positive because interest and principal reinvest at higher rates.

Results for total caloric intake show that a one percentage point increase in the soft drink tax rate actually increased total caloric intake by 27.7 calories per adult per day.

In 2008/9 academies saw a five percentage point increase in the proportion of pupils achieving at least five GCSEs at A * to C including English and mathematics - double the national average.

There has been a six percentage point increase in Mr. Cuomo's approval rating.

This is a 10 percentage point increase from when NY1 / YNN - Marist last asked this question in January.

[1] According to evidence from the New Zealand 2011 General Election [2], every 1,000 fan increase on a political candidate's Facebook page yielded a 1.4 percentage point increase in the share of vote.

For example, David Cameron's visits made a significant difference to Conservative vote share in Labour - held constituencies, with a visit earning a 1.4 percentage point increase over Labour - held constituencies not visited.

But there will undoubtedly be some progress; the Electoral Reform Society predict that the proportion of women elected will rise to 29.5 % — still low, but a seven percentage point increase on current levels.

A good night for Labour will see them make some modest gains in places like Tamworth — building on the 8.7 percentage point increase achieved in last year's general election.

Two in five people (21 %) said they trust the Conservative Party most to control immigration - a five percentage point increase since the last poll.

In English, Buffalo recorded a 1.4 percentage point increase to 17.8 percent of students proficient.

o In Queens and Staten Island, Mayor Bloomberg's approval rating stands at 47 %, a 10 percentage point increase from last month when 37 % of these voters shared this view.

«If we restrict the analysis to the top female students, the students with a GPA of 3.7 or higher, the impact is remarkable — it is a 26 percentage points increase,» Serra said.

Serra's results showed that among female students exposed to the enthusiastic mentors there was a 12 - percentage point increase in the percentage of female students enrolling in the upper - level Intermediate Microeconomics course the following year — a 100 % increase, or doubling, for that demographic.

After controlling for demographic characteristics and educational background, fellowships were associated with a 2.5 percentage point increase in the probability of R01 award (P <.001), traineeships with an increased award probability of 2.2 percentage points (P <.001), and career development awards with an increased award probability of 4.8 percentage points (P <.001) relative to R01 applicants who had no previous participation in these NIH training programs.

The study found that each 10 percentage point increase in the strength of a state's policy environment was related to an 8 percent reduction in the likelihood of youth drinking any alcohol, and a 7 percent reduction in the likelihood of binge drinking, defined as drinking past the point of intoxication.

«It is in effect a climate disruption tax, equivalent to a 2.7 percentage point increase in what Americans paid in sales taxes last year.»

The results of the study, co-authored with Dr Lorenzo Neri from QMUL, show that a three percentage point increase (from a baseline of 26 per cent) in the number of students who perform above expectations at Key Stage 2 increases local house prices by 1.5 per cent.

By comparing weekly deaths and flu - related hospitalizations in each year's flu season, the researchers were able to calculate that for every percentage point increase in the A / H3N2 match rate, weekly deaths declined by about 0.0016 and hospitalizations declined by about 0.002 per 1,000 nursing home residents.

For each one percentage point increase in Medicaid coverage, there was a one - half point decrease in the likelihood that doctors would accept new uninsured patients.

By comparison, economists found that productivity growth accounts for.91 percentage points of each 1.0 percentage point increase in the speed of output growth.

And Peterson and Chingos examined a privately funded voucher program in New York City and found that African - American voucher recipients experienced a 9 percentage point increase in attending college.

Specifically, teachers who were one standard deviation less effective (equivalent to the difference between a teacher at the 35th percentile and an average teacher) were associated with a 7.1 percentage point increase in the probability of dismissal.

For instance, with every 10 percentage point increase in the share of their class that is Asian, white 5th graders» math scores rise by 0.072 points and white 6th graders» math scores rise by 0.202 points.

If you look at it in a regression framework, you learn that a one thousand dollar increase in spending is associated with a 0.36 percentage point increase in ID rates.

The authors find that FWS participation is associated with an increased likelihood of being employed six years after initial enrollment (a modest, but statistically significant 2 percentage point increase; p <.05).

The statewide reading pass rate rose from 77 percent to 87 percent, an increase of 10 percentage points (compared with a 16 percentage point increase in Houston).

Demos also saw a net 18 percentage point increase in pupils feeling that they know where to go to talk about gambling problems, an 11 - percentage point increase in pupils able to describe delayed gratification, and a net 10 percentage point increase in pupils understanding the techniques used by the gambling industry to persuade people to gamble.

In contrast, 77.8 per cent of respondents have a negative view, with 52.5 per cent offering a «very negative» verdict — a 21.7 percentage point increase from last year.

Demos saw the most substantial changes, relative to the comparison school, in pupils being able to describe ways to help someone experiencing gambling problems, there was a net 20 percentage point increase in the proportion of pupils at participating schools relative to the comparison school being able to do so.