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  2. Affirmative action - Wikipedia

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    After the Sarkozy election, a new attempt in favour of Arab-French students was made, but Sarkozy did not gain enough political support to change the French constitution. However, some French schools do implement affirmative action in that they are obligated to take a certain number of students from impoverished families. [89]

  3. Welfare capitalism - Wikipedia

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    The point was to increase productivity by creating good will with employees. When Henry Ford introduced his $5-a-day pay rate in 1914 (when most workers made $11 a week), his goal was to reduce turnover and build a long-term loyal labor force that would have higher productivity. [11]

  4. Socially necessary labour time - Wikipedia

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    The simplest definition of socially necessary labour time is the amount of labour time performed by a worker of average skill and productivity, working with tools of the average productive potential, to produce a given commodity. This is an "average unit labour-cost", measured in working hours.

  5. Compensating differential - Wikipedia

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    A 'compensating differential', in contrast, refers exclusively to differences in pay due to differences in the jobs themselves, for a given worker (or for two identical workers). In the theory of price indices, economists also use the term compensating variation, which is yet another unrelated concept. A 'compensating variation' is the change ...

  6. AOC: Capitalism 'is the absolute pursuit of profit' at all costs

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    In a new interview with Yahoo Finance taped on Jan. 27, Ocasio-Cortez suggested that people often have different definitions of terms like socialism or capitalism.

  7. Glossary of economics - Wikipedia

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    Also called resource cost advantage. The ability of a party (whether an individual, firm, or country) to produce a greater quantity of a good, product, or service than competitors using the same amount of resources. absorption The total demand for all final marketed goods and services by all economic agents resident in an economy, regardless of the origin of the goods and services themselves ...

  8. Social Security Fairness Act could restore benefits, but ...

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    Social Security is projected to run out of funds in 2035 unless there is a change made to the fund's ... then you can start to work through that and use a calculator like the SSA has that will do ...

  9. Workplace democracy - Wikipedia

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    Another 2022 study using data from France found workplace democracy increases economic performance in knowledge-heavy sectors. [30] However, a 1986 study of plywood companies in the USA found democratic workplaces lost productivity due to them hiring more workers who were not given equal democratic rights compared to original workers. [31]