After each year, the employee receives an additional half a percentage point increase of the pretax profits.
After controlling for population and the number of police officers in each county, the study found that a one percent point increase in the local unemployment rate leads to a 6.4 percentage point increase in the number of traffic tickets.
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Many of the sneakers sold out online and in stores, and they achieved a 16-point increase in awareness of the new sneaker among the 36 million people that the campaign reached on Facebook.
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So, being listed in the top ten apps at any point will increase sales of that app again.
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The spending intentions, which are also 7 percent higher than a year ago, point to an increase of about 3 percent or 4 percent in holiday retail sales, Gallup estimates.
The offer of the bus fare, an amount which most of the men could have saved up to pay for themselves, led to a 22-percentage-point increase in the probability of migration.
The study suggests that each reduction of one percentage point in the marginal tax rate could increase the number of new businesses by as much as 2%.
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The Wireless Smartphone Satisfaction Study finds that satisfaction among smartphone customers is 796 (on a 1, 000-point scale), an increase of 22 points from 2012.
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The effect is quite substantial: a one-percentage-point increase in the number of foreign-born college graduates increased patents per capita by 9 to 18 percent.
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Alternative sources accounting for flows through third countries, such as Rhodium Group's China Investment Monitor, point to an even sharper increase of up to 1, 300%.
In fact, for every one percentage point increase in the number of entrepreneurs in a state, the average state saw a two percent decline in the poverty rate.
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Listening to NPR is associated with a 26-point increase in the likelihood of correctly naming Germany as the biggest life raft in Europe, and a 12-point decrease in thinking that the U.S. is bailing Europe out.
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Even a 50 basis point increase in annual growth of customers per restaurant beyond our projections would boost our price estimate by almost 3% assuming we hold the total number of restaurants and profit margins flat.
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It also would increase the size of the economy by a full percentage point by 2017, and increase employment.
Chidambaram Thursday announced a 3.0-percentage-point increase in the factory tax of SUVs to 30%.
The main sticking-point remains how to increase the firepower of the eurozone's main bailout fund, the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF).
Among the highest income one percent, the payroll tax cut accounts for only about 0.1 of a point of that total 4.5 percent increase.
At the mercy of the banks, DeWelt agreed to a two-point increase in the interest rate, to 7.75% on its revolving line of credit borrowings and 6.93% on its term loan.
In fact, the Achilles heel of any attempt to increase energy prices to a point necessary to alter consumer behavior is that this is exactly the type of policy that will face serious political opposition, and probably demise, every time.
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"Exchange-rate policy is, from our point of view, not an appropriate instrument to increase competitiveness, " said German government spokesman Steffen Seibert.
In 2008 the Conservatives managed to squeeze an extra 19 seats from an increase of just one percentage point in their share of the popular vote.
She notes that each percentage point increase in the unemployment rate leads to a 1.1 million increase in the number of uninsured.
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Stating any message point with strong conviction or finality will increase your odds of getting quoted.
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The 2.1 percentage point rise represented the fourth consecutive increase in the amount of portfolio dollars allocated to equities.
Erik was also a cool enough dude to allow me discuss my point of view with him on Twitter, so we could increase our understanding together.
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Indian industries and the government have been clamoring for the RBI to unwind most of the 3.75-percentage-point rate increase it carried out between March 2010 and October 2011 to combat stubborn inflation.
In 2012, PPR said it continued its expansion in rapid-growth markets where revenue advanced 13.7 percent on a comparable basis and accounted for 37.6 percent of sales, representing a 100 basis-point increase on 2011 on a comparable basis.
Those of us over age 50 remember that the outbreak of inflation in the 1970s led to record high interest rates and a wrenching recession that saw a four percentage point increase in the unemployment rate and a tripling of the federal budget deficit between 1979 and 1982.
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