| Education is the key to a future for humankind, especially for a healthier humankind with a suitable replacement rate. |
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| The replacement rate is the ratio between the state pension and average earnings. |
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| We are not making children at the replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman. |
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| Over time, this lower replacement rate eroded, then reversed, their initial numbers advantage. |
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| Why don't we modestly increase that replacement rate, and also lift the maximum earnings ceiling? |
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| He could reduce the minimum to qualify, drop the waiting period and increase the wage replacement rate. |
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| Finally, among different types of claimants, occasional claimants have a relatively higher replacement rate. |
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| This is well below the standard replacement rate of 2.1 but consistent with recent trends. |
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| For example, the replacement rate declines with age, a reflection of the fact that earnings tend to increase with age. |
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| The British replacement rate is now lower than 20 per cent and steadily declining because UK basic pensions are indexed to prices rather than to average earnings. |
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| Management generally expects a replacement rate higher than that forseen by unions. |
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| Furthermore, in order to raise the replacement rate, increasing participation in the second and third pillars also offers possibilities. |
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| The net replacement rate compares the after-tax income, whereas the gross replacement rate compares the income levels before tax. |
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| In the United States, our fertility rate has fallen below the replacement rate as well. |
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| The following table, taken from the Régime québécois d'assurance parentale website, illustrates the differences between the two plans regarding the average income replacement rate and maximum number of benefit weeks. |
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| As will become clear in the next section, the absence of a bilateral agreement also bears certain other substantial disadvantages in terms of totalization and replacement rate. |
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| For pension benefits, this is done through totalization of contributions, which provides individual fairness with regard to eligibility and replacement rate and broad fiscal fairness for the involved countries. |
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| For pension benefits, the key element for portability is totalization of contribution periods and amounts in order to avoid disadvantages in eligibility and replacement rate. |
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| The replacement rate has been changed across the board a number of times, making it very difficult to disentangle the impact of that change from the impact of other changes in the economic environment. |
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| The plant retirement rate has simply outrun the replacement rate. |
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| The effective taxation on labour is relatively high, the net replacement rate relatively generous and the regulatory environment could be made lighter. |
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| In most industrialized countries the fertility rate has dropped well below replacement rate. |
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| The Council welcomes the fiscal reform which will be implemented in 2001 and which aims at reducing the tax burden and at fostering labour supply by reducing the replacement rate. |
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| Although the replacement rate and other changes are fairly small, these entitlement changes are large enough to suggest that we should expect some sign of their effects in the results. |
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| The left and right forward drive cables, located in the cabin interior, did not show a high replacement rate and were not affected by the service letter. |
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| Conversely, a comparable worker with a higher discount rate might elect to take the reduction in replacement rate and stay unemployed for one more week. |
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| The regular income replacement rate is 55 percent under EI but for those in the public sector or protected by major unions, the replacement rate is usually topped up to 90 to 95 percent. |
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| First, the birth rate of new urban dwellers falls immediately to replacement rate, and keeps falling, reducing environmental stresses caused by population growth. |
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