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- From: demon@desire.wright.edu (Stupendous Man)
- Newsgroups: sci.econ
- Subject: Re: NAFTA
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.122556.3679@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 17:25:56 GMT
- References: <Bt1H9E.H9w@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> <51907@dime.cs.umass.edu>
- <1992Aug18.135550.3571@desire.wright.edu> <52203@dime.cs.umass.edu>
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- In article <52203@dime.cs.umass.edu>, yodaiken@chelm.cs.umass.edu (victor yodaiken) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug18.135550.3571@desire.wright.edu> exit writes:
- >>> 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.
- >>
- >> Not true. During the Reagan years, the number of jobs paying less than
- >>$10/hour decreased 25% while the number of jobs paying more than $10/hour
- >>increased 67%. [USA Today, Op-ed piece, Monday, August 17th]
- >
- > Boston Globe reports today that real-wages have been declining since 1972
-
- Sure. Inflation does that :).
-
- The point is/was that most of the jobs were not burger-flipping type
- jobs (unless McDonalds pays a lot more than they used to :).
-
- Whether a $10/hour job buys as much as it used to is a whole 'nother
- argument.
-
- Brett
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