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wages
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A Lack Of Migrants Is Raising Wages – This Is Good, Isn’t It?
We’ve a complaint that a lack of incoming migrants is causing wages to rise. That all sounds pretty…
The Effects Of Tax Changes Depends Upon Whose Taxes Are Changed
Something that macroeconomists looking at the economy from 30,000 feet often miss. The effects of changes rather depend…
It’s Official – Public Sector Workers Make More Than Private Sector
The Office for National Statistics has given us the low down on public sector wages – they’re higher…
The Bank Of England Announces That Public Sector Pay Just Rose
The Bank of England – more accurately, someone from it, Gertjan Vlieghe – has good news for public…
Is There Nothing Brexit Can’t Do? It’s Forcing Wage Rises Now
There is, as we know, a never ending list of terror. The dastardly things that Brexit will cause.…
We’ll Offer A Prize For The First To Spot This Statistical Manipulation
Most people on’t read very much of anything. Thus it’s the first eyepopping claim that matters, not the…
To Celebrate The Bit Of Economics Karl Marx Got Right
We’re told that companies are starting to give pay rises – real income increases that is, above the…
To Explain The Engels Pause – It Didn’t Happen In The First Place
It’s a standard assumption that living standards declined at the birth of capitalism. This underpins much of the…
US Quits Are Up – That Job Market Is Getting Better And Better
The great question about the labour market these days is, well, where the Hell are the wage rises?…
Amazon, Apple, Foxconn, They’re Exploiting Workers In China – Huzzah!
The latest whine from the snowflakes over on the left is that workers in one of Foxconn’s factories…