In many rich countries average wages in the state sector are higher than in the private one.

在许多富裕国家，国有部门的平均工资高于私营部门。

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Western Europe's employees are also better wired: every new member-state is below the western average for internet penetration, and all but Estonia and Slovenia trail on e-government scores.

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Thus, to obtain a reasonable estimate of state-level job impacts, we average the three approaches.

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That puts DSL providers at a particular disadvantage, a Sprint (nyse: FON - news - people ) executive testified, because state and local telecom taxes are so high--an average of 13.9% of bills across the U.S., compared to an average 6% sales tax on other goods and services.

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