He, too, is reluctant to see federally mandated minimum prices for key commodities.
It wants to reduce the minimum prices that it guarantees for cereals, beef and milk, while giving farmers extra money directly as partial compensation.
In industry after industry when minimum prices are set on labor either capital ends up getting substituted through investment in labor-saving technology or low-skill jobs move overseas.
While the legislation is under way for these Contracts for Difference (effectively guaranteed minimum prices set at different rates for different technologies), the prices are not yet out.
We found their approach to have more than double the impact of a less comprehensive approach used in British Columbia, where minimum prices were not linked to alcohol content.
By announcing minimum prices at which it would buy bank debt, the agency gave banks little incentive to pursue bad debtors, even though they continued to manage their loans.
Evidence from Saskatchewan, which has a slightly different policy as there are different minimum prices for different types of drinks, has shown that a 10% rise in price leads to an 8% fall in alcohol consumption.
Fairtrade is a market-responsive model of trade: the farmers receive the Fairtrade minimum prices and premiums only if they have a buyer willing to pay them and many producer groups also sell in the conventional market.
New York, a 1934 case upholding a New York law setting minimum milk prices.
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Atrove of 620 Picasso lithographs goes on the block Apr. 28 at Christie's in New York with no reserve (minimum) prices.
The Democrat opposes raising farm income through government price supports, which can establish minimum market prices that end up making it harder to sell U.S. food in world markets.
The combination of plentiful monsoon rains and high minimum purchase prices for wheat and rice means the country is forecasting an all-time-high grain production of 250.42 million tons in the crop year ending June 30.
Impose a minimum wage which prices the least educated and skilled out of the market.
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But Gore also said commodity prices can be supported through so-called "marketing loans, " which essentially give farmers a minimum price but allow market prices to still rise and fall.
It lengthened the time for paying unemployment benefits to older workers, offered pensioners relief from rising prices and introduced minimum wages in half a dozen industries, including postal and security services.
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If employee costs are 10% of expenses, a fairly common situation at places like retailers that hire many minimum wage workers, that means it would take a 1% increase in selling prices to pass along the increase in the minimum wage to the customer.
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Housebuilders reject the criticisms and claim that minimum space standards would push up house prices.
Most employers cannot simply raise prices to cover the higher minimum wage, particularly in the competitive services sector.
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The same is true if it thinks that higher minimum wages will feed into higher retail prices, especially if that prompts compensatory wage demands.
But in the three years since the last national increase, the minimum wage has quite obviously not kept pace with prices.
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New benefits include a subscriber-only hotline, the elimination of exchange fees to allow for a more personalized selection of performances and a guarantee that subscription tickets come at a minimum discount of 15% off single-sale prices for evening subscriptions and 10% off for Saturday matinees.
Of those, eight offer probable returns double our minimum and are exceptional investment opportunities at this time and these prices.
And it is partly because he spent much of the windfall from record oil prices on raising public-sector salaries and the minimum wage.
While they have not dropped their prices, they have eliminated the two-night minimum for weekend stays and say they are willing to negotiate with visitors.
They have to commit to a minimum trading volume, and a maximum margin between bid- and offer- prices.
Minimum wage laws prevent employers from taking advantage of low-quality labor at low prices.
The new minimum wage is roughly 200 RMB higher than Tianjin and other choice locations, and land prices are generally cheaper in northern special economic zones.
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