In looking at the trends and theoretically this would be my guess. I am currently in Seattle visiting family where Amazon has taken up a chunk of prime real estate in downtown for its buildings. I am curious what these jobs will be in part because I am planning to do a study (pending funding) on changing labor markets in three so called high-tech, high-wage cities (Seattle, Bangalore, and Melbourne). The study is necessarily located in cities/greater metropolitan areas so data would be harder to come by. The mechanism for this "burger flipping" jobs across the three cities are likely to be complicated and varied but I believe there are some common "transnational" links in the play and the variation is likely to be explained by the extent of "buffers" created by the state to support low skill workers through high minimum wage (as in Melbourne) plus other public services (free health care) with the caveat that these are under increasing attack even in these places.
Any suggestions for US data (BLS etc.) and ideas for conducting such a study is very welcome. Anthony xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Anthony P. D'Costa, Chair & Professor of Contemporary Indian Studies Australia India Institute and School of Social & Political Sciences University of Melbourne 147-149 Barry Street, Carlton VIC 3053, AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 3 9035 6161 Visit the Australia India Institute Website http://www.aii.unimelb.edu.au/ Recent Conference (The Land Question) http://idsk.edu.in/program.php New Book Series (Dynamics of Asian Development) http://www.springer.com/series/13342 Recent books: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198082286.do#.UI5Wzmc2dI0 http://www.oup.com/localecatalogue/cls_academic/?i=9780199646210 http://www.anthempress.com/pdf/9780857285041.pdf http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=295354 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent from my iPad > On Jan 9, 2015, at 08:48, Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 1/9/15 11:42 AM, Anthony D'Costa wrote: >> Is there a quick summary of what these new jobs are? By sectors/occupations? > > I don't know if that data is available but this from the NYT might > indicate that the jobs are cleaning bedpans and flipping burgers: > > "But the good news on job creation was tempered by a poor showing in > average hourly earnings, which fell 0.2 percent in December after rising > 0.4 percent in November. Many economists had thought the increase > signaled the start of a trend that wages were finally improving." > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
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