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- From: fierro@uts.amdahl.com (Doug Fierro)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: NAFTA
- Message-ID: <40qn03Wd61fA00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com>
- Date: 17 Aug 92 22:53:08 GMT
- References: <Bsxz2o.6tw@apollo.hp.com> <Bt1H9E.H9w@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <51907@dime.cs.umass.edu>
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- In article <51907@dime.cs.umass.edu> yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
- >In article <Bt1H9E.H9w@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> sitomlin@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu (Stephen I. Tomlinson) writes:
- >><Bsxz2o.6tw@apollo.hp.com> nelson_p@apollo.hp.com (Peter Nelson) writes:
- >>> . . . no one has made a very
- >>> convincing case one way or the other. NPR said yesterday
- >>> that estimates range from gaining 150,000 jobs to losing
- >>> 400,000 jobs. It is very clear from reading leading economists'
- >>> predictions about the economy in the Wall Street Journal,
- >>> over the last several years that economics is far, FAR from
- >>> a reliable science.
- >>
- >>The prospect of losing 400,000 jobs should not greatly concern people (aside
- >>from those directly inconvenienced, of course). Employment in the
- >>U.S. rose from 99.3 million in 1980 to 117.9 million in 1990. That's
- >>more than 5000 new jobs per day or more than 150,000 new jobs per month.
- >>And that's with the recession of the early 1980's averaged in.
- >
- >Right, but what kind of jobs? Everything I've read on this topic suggests
- >that the 80's saw a process in which high-wage skilled labor was replaced
- >by low-wage unskilled labor: replacing 400K industrial skilled labor
- >jobs with 500K burger flipping jobs is a massive net loss to the economy.
-
- I have seen stats showing that the number of jobs from 1980 to 1990
- has decreased as a percentage of the population- I'll try to dig up the
- magazine article which might have those numbers.
-
- Doug
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