The authors say banks, retailers, and restaurant chains set national pay levels but then allow regional variations to take into account recruitment rates and the local cost of living.
Earlier today, San Francisco-based housing-data firm Trulia.com released a new analysis of renting versus owning in various cities around the U.S. As part of the excercise, Trulia identified 10 cities where the cost of purchasing a home was exorbitant compared to the local cost of renting.
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He said the State Department's late arrival has cost local communities important training and preparation.
Transferring all foreign-currency debt into local currency could cost 7% of GDP, the central bank reckons.
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The company is part of a growing movement to use low cost local resources rather then potentially un-reliable and increasingly costly foreign resources.
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The proposal was advanced last year, but stalled when Ms Banerjee threw her weight behind objections, claiming that foreign retailers would cost local jobs.
Conservative MP for North West Leicestershire, Andrew Bridgen, said the plans could cost local jobs in his constituency and he has urged the transport secretary to rethink the route.
Relatively low state and local taxes and cost of living are helping to make New Orleans a magnet for business start-ups and young college graduates what Seattle or Austin were in other recent decades.
The whole imbroglio is small potatoes for the Fertitta brothers, Frank and Lorenzo, who pulled their Station Casinos through bankruptcy and now control a large part of the lower-cost local gambling market in Las Vegas.
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In Mr Hunt's Local TV plans he claimed there was a "real demand" for programming more local than that offered by the BBC or commercial stations and the new framework "significantly reduces the cost of running local TV services".
The local authority will now cost the proposal before putting it before the full council.
The high cost of local housing makes it harder to bring in workers from other regions.
On Main Street, many retailers are getting pounded by online competition, at the cost of local jobs.
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Driving to the local bank branch might cost more in the use of gasoline than the value of the check.
It's also a bizarre statement of how tangled local and federal regulations cost the health care system time, money and aggravation.
Here's something few people consider when they're flipping through college guides and mailings from prospective universities: The cost of local housing.
You can hire local specialists who may cost a little more but bring better knowledge, reliability and the English language to your project.
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Given the reductions in subsidies to localities he is proposing in his next budget, he wants to be sure that local authorities have foolproof cost-cutting mechanisms at their disposal.
In addition, assistance is available to State and eligible local governments on a cost-sharing basis for emergency protective measures, including snow assistance, for a continuous 48-hour period during or proximate to the incident period.
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In addition, federal funding is available to the state and eligible local governments on a cost-sharing basis for snow assistance for a continuous 48-hour period during or proximate to the incident period in the counties of Dewey and Ellis.
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"Recognizing budget realities, current Defense policy states that outreach events can only be supported with local assets at no cost to the government, " said a statement Tuesday from the office of the Commander Naval Air Forces in San Diego.
Miner and other mayors outside New York City and around the state have been urging the Cuomo administration for months to provide relief from state-mandated costs and laws that drive up the cost of local governments to levels they say taxpayers can no longer afford.
You can call the capital, 1, 500 km away, for the cost of a local call.
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He got 90% of the workers he needed and passed the higher cost on to local governments.
The bulk of a burger's cost depends on local inputs such as rent and wages, which tend to be lower in poor countries.
Truth is, America's tax burden--after you add up state and local and pile on the cost of complying with our buffoonish 54, 000-page tax code--is not much less than Europe's.
Reserving new low-cost housing for local workers makes sense.
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But the massive cleanup effort for the Olympic Games has come at a cost to the local economy of some nearby industrial cities, whose factories have been forced to close down temporarily.
Second, the biggest part of unit growth in the years ahead is likely to be in smaller, economy models where affordability is the key consideration and where local assemblers have a decided cost advantage.
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