Sentences with phrase «much economic shifts»

There is a corresponding decrease in seismicity in 2015, but Rubinstein said it is difficult to tell how much economic shifts or new regulation contributed to that trend.

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At the same time, the rate of self - employment has barely budged so it seems clear that much of this big shift has been tax - motivated rather than reflecting changes in actual economic activity.

Economic development incentives don't create jobs as much as they shift them around, pitting communities against one another for who can pony up the most corporate welfare.

However, organizations like UN Women and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), among others, have reported on studies that show how much of a vital contribution — and even complete shift in society — women make when they are educated and empowered.

Husbands whose wives make more money are 61 % less likely to say they're happy Wives who are primary breadwinners are also significantly less happy about their family lives than other women Men are 5 times more likely to cheat when they're financially dependent on their wives Divorce is 40 % more likely when a women makes over 60 % of the family's income Much of the discussion around this topic so far has focused on the broader business and economic consequences of this shift.

Debates within parties shift all the time, and naturally much is in flux in current economic conditions, but there is perhaps much less time to think politically or strategically.

The powerful Blairite wing will argue that Labour lost because it shifted too much to the left and failed to develop a credible economic programme.

If he is successful in championing the Yorkshire - wide proposal designed by local authorities across the region, we could see an important shift in the devolution agenda in England — from a top - down to a bottom - up system, built on economic as well as identity motifs and with a much wider, regional scale.

State Assemblyman Sean Ryan is pitching a plan to take away much of the power of the six Industrial Development Agencies in the county and shift economic development control to the Regional Economic Development economic development control to the Regional Economic Development Economic Development Council.

Haidt: I was mostly struck by how much the culture war has shifted to economic issues.

The factors contributing to the budget squeeze are much more interrelated: a rapidly shrinking school district, coupled with the 2008 economic downturn and a shift in the composition of the teaching force.

The key is to have an investment plan that won't make you wonder so much when the economic climate and markets are shifting.

Economic Sentiment and Spending Among Older Americans» finds that we become less optimistic about the stock market, the economy and our future financial health as we age, a shift that may lead us to focus so much on preserving our wealth in retirement that we don't enjoy it as much as we could.

Not long ago, reflecting on studies showing that whale watching had become a much bigger economic force than whale killing, I proposed a change in the name to the International Whale Commission, reflecting the shifting nature of most humans» relationships to these remarkable marine mammals.

Brown said it would be an enormous challenge to shift the world away from the fossil fuels that have been the source of so much economic growth.

Because much of the local economic development agenda is determined at the provincial level, educating and informing local leadership must be seen as an effective lever to effecting a green shift.

If we put more funding into renewables for example, their cost could probably come down so much that we wouldn't have the political battles that we have now because it'd become simply a question of economic imperative to shift away from fossil fuels.

Unless we can find a way to protect utilities from much of this economic and emotional risk, the shift from coal to gas will be slow in coming.

Much of that economic output is a result of American and European companies shifting manufacturing to places where labor costs are lower.

As serious governments shift the climate - change debate from whether the phenomenon exists to the best means to combat it, one of the first things officials want to know is how much economic damage it will cause — and how much measures to fight it might cost.

The density and height of buildings along these streets are much as they were a hundred years ago; for reasons of social, economic and environmental sustainability, and considering shifting live - work patterns, they are now especially ripe for revitalization and intensification.»

Instead, much of Rabin's practice has now shifted to support modification disputes, which are increasingly common as clients» economic situations change.

«In many cases economic power has shifted to the consumer or client side, with buyers demanding more say on what lawyers do, how they do it, and how much and how they charge for it,» says «The Future of Legal Services in Canada: Trends and Issues» paper released by the Futures Initiative in June.

Second, because of the sudden nature with which dramatic shifts can occur in sectors and financial markets outside commercial real estate, economic shocks can occur much more suddenly than many in the commercial real estate industry may realize.

«Much of this is dependent upon economic recovery, but if this happens you will see a flattening of the yield curve and the advantage in floating rate shift to fixed rate,» he concurs.