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And "improving progressivity" a bit of ideological wordplay -- why not just say "increasing progressivity?" will reinforce those outcomes because making the tax code more progressive will place higher hurdles before low-income individuals to increase their work-hours and incomes.

Jagadeesh Gokhale: The Futility of the Gang of Six Budget Plan Jagadeesh Gokhale 2011

I have a hard time remembering which countries are in the OECD and thus in the comparison, but I would expect that the UK and most of Eastern Europe would be exceptions (at least partially) to this work-hours phenomenon.

Hours Worked In the U.S. vs. Europe, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

His or her own life, at least during work-hours (and often beyond)

From the One to the Many | Managing Greatness 2009

They include closer tracking of limits for pilot work-hours and greater reliance on voluntary reporting of problems by pilots.

Pilot Error Seen Likely in Fatal India Landing 2010

(One cannot help recalling Justice Brewer's equally well-intentioned yet deeply-misguided opinion in Muller v. Oregon, through which the United States Supreme Court upheld a maximum work-hours statute that applied only to females.)

Jacob M. Appel: Doubling Down on Baby M: New Jersey's Ongoing Resistance to Surrogacy 2010

There are ideas and programs even from conservative sides (at least in Europe): new models that try to introduce work-hour-accounts (amounts of work-hours are agreed upon between employer and employee, then distributed over the year according to the needs of both); a guaranteed basic income for everyone (that would free work-capacity by separating the concept of work from that of a work-place).

The welfare state’s dirty little secret is out 2010

Several specific demands, such as that NYU's administration should resume dialogue with the GSOC/UAW graduate student union and that NYU employees whose jobs were disrupted by the sit-in should be compensated for lost work-hours, are thoroughly valid.

Kit Gallant: Take Back NYU!: Change We Can Believe In? 2009

Seven days and 25 total work-hours later, I finished this experimental piece, done with the handiest lineart I had at the time.

11th April '06 flidgetjerome 2006

After that came the ultimate work-hours buster: the Internet.

'The One-Life Solution' 2008

You too were susceptible to the danger created by the erosion of the work-hours boundary.

'The One-Life Solution' 2008