michael perelman <[email protected]> wrote: > Presumably, low wage jobs in production are the first to go, > especially in light of outsourcing. That should raise average wages. > > On the other hand, much of the job growth is in low wage service jobs, > which should lower average wages. I am guessing that the latter > should predominated, but I am not sure.
the end of law-wage jobs in production shouldn't raise the average wage -- because the majority of low-wage people who are laid off eventually get new jobs (and it's not just in services), which likely pay less. What this change mostly does is increase the degree of inequality among wage-earners. That's what's happened: during the last 33 years or so, there's been an increase in inequality within almost all categories of workers. -- Jim Devine / If you're going to support the lesser of two evils, you should at least know the nature of that evil. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
