Two features of Spain’s jobs market share much of the blame: the high cost of firing permanent workers, and a wage system that binds firms to industry-wide pay deals.

解雇正式工的高昂成本，以及迫使企业必须遵守行业薪酬协议的工资体系——西班牙就业市场具有的这两个特点，均备受责难。

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Two features of Spain's jobs market share much of the blame: the high cost of firing permanent workers, and a wage system that binds firms to industry-wide pay deals.

解雇正式工的高昂成本，以及迫使企业必须遵守行业薪酬协议的工资体系——西班牙就业市场具有的这两个特点，均备受责难。

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His rule cost the lives of perhaps half a million Iraqis. Two-thirds fell in unnecessary wars; the rest were civilian “enemies”, rounded up and shot, usually by firing squad.

大约有50万的伊拉克人在他的统治下丧生，三分之二的伊拉克人陷入了莫须有的战争之中，其他三分之一的伊拉克人则成了公民的“敌人”，常常都被行刑队围杀。

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This eliminates the high cost of firing workers without reducing the payout to sacked employees.

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Moving workers from one place to another is expensive, and the cost of firing them, though now reduced for future recruits, is still much higher than in most parts of Europe.

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With Directed Energy, the cost of firing is negligible.

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