#Wages

Ingrid M

iMusing

big news that Morrison is going to announce he has a plan today. Every Liberal leader since 2013 has campaigned on a purported “plan” and still tanked the economy while

Berat Thaqi

ThaqiBerat

(Thread) Problems with the 10% reimbursement policy for persons who have up to 10 thousand euros in the Pension Fund (Trust), proposed yesterday by PDK: 1. Persons who have worked

Christopher Whitaker

CivicWhitaker

If I was sitting at the desk of the once (and future) Office of Technology Assessment (a now defunct unit of Congress that advises Congress on tech) I'd be raising

Thucydides

DThucydides

The problem with Marxists/communists (whatever they call themselves) is and always has been that they actually have quite good analysis of the relationship between Labour and capital and the problems

Oren Danieli

DanieliOren

@SydneeCaldwell and I have a new version of our paper “Outside Options in the Labor Market” (my 2018 jmp).We develop a method to estimate workers’ outside options and show that

Scott Maxwell

Scott_Maxwell

The rest of the world is starting to see who we are.This is powerful, depressing storytelling.And maybe this Post piece will awaken people in a way previous stories haven't.But i

Alison Trollop

AlisonTrollop

Often (you'll see throughout history), the gentry expects the workers to do the grunt work so that they can have a nice life. But they don't want to pay enough

Erik Öberg

ek_oberg

Paper alert!In a new NBER WP, Tobias Broer, @KrusellPer and I present a simple model to investigate how the interaction of nominal rigidities and household heterogeneity shape fiscal multipliers. https://www.nber.org/papers/w28366 Thre

Matt Darling 🌐💸🌇

besttrousers

I think that lots of people misconceive how state level UI replacement rates are calculated. It's not the case that states are currently just setting replacement rates at 45% and

Satyanarayan Iyer

ThePoonaboy

Thread: #Labour welfare canard of @BJP4India and @PMOIndia @narendramodi.A Smokescreen: 1It increases legal work hours of the already over-worked and exploited labour to 12 hrs from 8 hrs.World over, scientifically

Ellen Carmichael

ellencarmichael

Americans have no idea just how overworked and underpaid the young professionals who serve them on Capitol Hill are. D.C. is one of the most expensive cities in America, and

Yorkie

CuntyYorkie

People who are saying the board have let Wilder down want to take a hard look at themselves. Of all the things we could blame the board isn’t one of

Mark M

iwasmmueller88

You know what I dislike? Articles like this.https://www.theregister.com/2020/09/12/silicon_valley_wages/ Let me explain why.Does it suck to take a pay cut regardless of situation? Absolutely!But in this case it's totally fair.Wages are

Dr Johnny Fever

ehforgetit

Ok here goes: either we need to have wages that move with profits and actually increase for the working class, or there needs to be a robust social safety net.

Ernie Tedeschi

ernietedeschi

#CPSMicrodataDay A few interesting nuggets. Wage growth is difficult to get a handle on right now, since official data uses averages that have been skewed by low wage job losses.

Jeff Spross

jeffspross

Economists struggle to find evidence that immigration reduces wages, yet business leaders' support for immigration is clearly based on believing it does just that. This suggests 1) economists are wrong,

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