But if the foreign resources are badly employed, or if the current-account deficit grows too fast, a country may not be able to meet its obligations to foreign creditors.
If you're employed and thinking about changing jobs, or if your objective is to make a career switch, holiday gatherings also offer a chance to ask people about their own work.
It said some workers aged over 65 or those on fixed term contracts would continue to be employed if their roles were of a "specialist or hard to recruit skill".
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One of the biggest problems in our health care system right now is if you're a small business owner or if you're self-employed, you often have such a small number of workers that insurance companies aren't all that interested in your business.
Such a move would also have a positive impact on general tax revenues as more 65 and 66 year olds would remain in the work force in the effort to protect their company-provided healthcare benefits or, if they are self-employed, continue earning enough money to pay for their private health insurance premiums for an additional two years.
If the adult child or spouse is employed, then they should help pay for groceries or monthly expenses.
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It is unknown if Xiao is currently employed or not (he had previously worked at a software development company but quit after three months).
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Similarly, if you are self employed or running a furnished holiday letting business and you are using a room at home as an office, it should be possible to claim a tax deduction for some of the house running expenses such as heat, light, business use of telephone, painting and decorating, etc.
For example, the questionnaires never ask if you are employed, unemployed or retired.
You know, nothing is harder right now to getting insurance than if you are self-employed or you work for a small business, because what happened is you don't have enough workers for the insurance company to really want your business.
If you are self-employed, or don't have an occupational pension, then any money you want at retirement will have to come from your own savings, and the main savings vehicle that people use for retirement planning tends to be a personal pension.
Some were found stacking shelves in supermarkets or driving taxis - and that's if they were employed at all.
If you run a small business or are self-employed, insure--and incorporate.
We're not going to promise you at the end of this that there's going to be a job there for you, but we'll try and create something so that you can either become self-employed, or set your own business up, or if you make it profitable enough, there'll be a job there for you.
This "residual benefit" feature could be more valuable than you ever thought, especially if you are a small-business owner, self-employed or in a fee-based practice, such as accountants and lawyers, says Michael Relvas, a financial planner in Rockville, Md.
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If they are self-employed they may well be paying themselves a lower wage or spending part of their week not generating an income but trying to win work.
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Individuals can qualify as volunteers if they either volunteer to perform services for a different agency or perform different services than they are employed to perform for the same public agency.
Many would argue that there is a public interest for private detectives to be employed to uncover information relevant to a judgement about the probity of politicians or public figures, if it is impossible to be obtained in more conventional journalistic ways.
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Unlike a regular 401(k) plan, a solo 401(k) plan can be implemented only by self-employed individuals or small business owners who have no other full-time employees (an exception applies if your full-time employee is your spouse).
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