The results showed that participants given the fake cigarette as treatment, and who were identified as being heavily dependent on the behavior of smoking, had a quit rate roughly 3.5 times higher than those in the standard-treatment group (67% vs. 19%).
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Both Ben Bernanke and vice chairwoman Janet Yellen have made it clear QE will remained tied to a substantial improvement in labor conditions, which should at least include continued payroll growth and an improvement in hiring, the quit rate, and real GDP.
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If you add in those workers who have been compelled to work part time because they can't find full-time work or those who have quit looking, the unemployment rate actually rose to 16.8 percent, says Peter Morici, an economics professor at the University of Maryland.
Patches and gums have shown that they can, by slowly weaning smokers off the drug, double the rate at which smokers quit for good.
The executive, the former general counsel of UBS's investment bank, quit UBS in August as the auction-rate probe heated up.
Or Greece might decide to quit the eurozone, so that the exchange rate would be able to fall to a level that would allow the Greek private sector to compete.
The government publishes a separate unemployment rate, called the U-6, which adds to the official unemployment rate people who became discouraged and quit looking and those otherwise marginally attached to the labor force, such as working part time when a full-time job is preferred.
Mr Jenkins replaced Bob Diamond who quit over Barclays' role in rigging the Libor rate used in trillions of pounds of financial contracts.
Low-earning women have a higher rate of employment instability because they tend to move in and out of jobs when they are forced to quit due to child-care arrangements falling through or having to deal with health issues of family members.
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