Martin, exactly. They line up for the few good jobs. The majority will not
succeed and will become unemployed.
martin schiller wrote:
> 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?
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