middle-income
Many children from high-income households have little knowledge about budgeting.
High-income workers often spend long hours at the office.
The interests of citizens of high income countries are not more important than the interests of other global citizens.
They want their children to go into high-income, prestige occupations such as being lawyers, physicians, or dentists.

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high-income | Business English

high-income
adjective[ only before noun ]
ukus
FINANCE
used to describe an investment that pays a high level of interest:
high-income bonds
used to describe people who earn a lot of money, and the places where they live:
The fitness studio attracts professional athletes and high-income customers.
Minnesota is a fairly high-income and prosperous state.

Examples of high-income

high-income
As in that sample, rates were substantially lower than national norms for high-income sixth grade youth in the current study.
Virtually all the low-income observations come from developing countries, while all the high-income observations come from developed countries.
However, the downturns are mild, leaving emissions in the high-income countries only slightly below their current levels.
However, between the years 1992-1997, high-income earners were less willing to spend tax-money on unemployment benefits.
The model has two steady states, the low-income, poverty trap and the highgrowth, high-income steady state.
By contrast, grants have a positive outcome on the enrolment of low-income groups, and a neutral outcome for mid- to high-income groups.
At the other end of the spectrum, low-income countries have a higher percentage of 'not at all willing' responses than high-income countries.
There is substantial evidence from both high-income and low-income countries that taxes and social insurance schemes provide the most equitable basis for healthcare financing.
This estimate ignores the tax surcharge which is levied on high-income earners and any taxes that may be paid on employee contributions.
In particular, the economic distortions associated with price policies are predicted to be quite large and such policies also will primarily benefit high-income groups.
Nonetheless, the book does discuss pension reforms in a wide range of high-income countries.
First, in every segment of the population, except for the high-income group, less than one-half supported democracy while rejecting its authoritarian alternatives.
On the one hand, insurance payoffs for high-income earners are "back-loaded" with contributions in middle age and benefits in old age.
This occurs despite a rise in per capita emissions in high-income countries from 3.4 metric tons to 4.4 metric tons.
Here, the well-educated high-income workers that invest the most in the riskiest funds, and they will not likely need the minimum pension guarantee.
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