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The welfare findings and the advocacy of ECP are affected strongly by the magnitude of attendant cross elasticities and by whether the no-shift own-price elasticities of the workshared product are larger, the same, or smaller than those of the basic product.
According to Aristotle, it was the qualitative pluralist Empedocles (484-424 B.C.E.) who first argued that everything was fundamentally reducible to the elements earth, water, air and fire (or sunlight) in different proportions, but, as one classical scholar observes, a popular belief in the four as somehow basic ingredients in nature was much older, possibly a borrowing from Egypt.
As the closest available proxy for the percentage of legal immigrants per state, we used the "foreign born, not a US citizen" category available in the Public Basic Monthly Survey for 1994 to 2001.
Did you know that about 20 percent of America's workers have low basic skills and 75 percent of unemployed adults have reading or writing difficulties?
Language appropriate to level: a basic ability to read and write, followed by the capacity to handle abstract usage, and, at a higher level, to be at ease with what Philip Gove in Webster's Third called ISV, `international scientific vocabulary.