Michael Perelman said on 10/29/00 6:43 P
> Regions with low average incomes are marked by the presence of large
>numbers of relatively impoverished people in low productivity
>occupations, and thus relatively high inequality across occupations,
>industries, and sectors. Many such people seek any available exit from
>their status. They seek alternatives, even if they recognize that the
>chances a priori of finding a substantially better job are low. In other
>words, so long as appealing alternatives to low-income employment exist,
>even (indeed, especially) when they are not widely accessible, people
>form up into the queues of the unemployed.
Does this mean that poor people line up for better jobs?
