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Some people think that the best way to motivate employees to work hard is to pay them high salaries. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

#people #employees #work #salaries
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 of
people
 who were born in
Australia
 and outside
this
 country living in urban, rural and
town
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 between 1995 and 2010. It should be mentioned that percentage of the respondents born in
Australia
 living in rural areas made up 30% in 1995 but
quantity
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 of these
people
 changed
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 two times
less
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and it constituted 15% in 2010. As for other counties, amount of
people
 living in
same
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 conditions was 40% in 1995 and
then
number
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 of these polled
people
 decreased
in
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eight times, making up 5% only in 2010. It turned out that
people
 who weren’t born in
Australia
 preferred living in cities to living in towns in 1995 (60% and 10% respectively). At the same time, in 2010 the category of these respondents living in cities (80%) was
in
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eight times higher compared to that of those who chose
living
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 in towns (10%). In conclusion, the characteristics of human behaviour have changed and it can be noticed that
people
 born inside and outside
Australia
 more often choose
living
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 in cities that cannot be related to living in towns and rural areas.
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