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  2. From: yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.econ
  4. Subject: Re: NAFTA
  5. Message-ID: <52203@dime.cs.umass.edu>
  6. Date: 20 Aug 92 22:57:08 GMT
  7. References: <Bt1H9E.H9w@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <51907@dime.cs.umass.edu> <1992Aug18.135550.3571@desire.wright.edu>
  8. Sender: news@dime.cs.umass.edu
  9. Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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  12. In article <1992Aug18.135550.3571@desire.wright.edu> exit writes:
  13. >> Right, but what kind of jobs? Everything I've read on this topic suggests
  14. >> that the 80's saw a process in which high-wage skilled labor was replaced
  15. >> by low-wage unskilled labor: replacing 400K industrial skilled labor
  16. >> jobs with 500K burger flipping jobs is a massive net loss to the economy.
  17. >
  18. >    Not true.  During the Reagan years, the number of jobs paying less than
  19. >$10/hour decreased 25% while the number of jobs paying more than $10/hour
  20. >increased 67%.  [USA Today, Op-ed piece, Monday, August 17th]
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  22. Boston Globe reports today that real-wages have been declining since 1972
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