Government is the Largest Employer: The Fading American Economy

Scucca · 04-13-08, 05:27 PM

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Originally Posted by aegyptos

Relatively high to what then? Quit dodging and answer the question if you can.

Dodging? You've taken one sentence from the paper (a published chapter by well respected academics) and twisted its meaning. You've done that as TABLE 9 doesn't agree with your hope. It is an inane tactic and I'm not going to bite. I'll wait for you to craft a mature comment

aegyptos · 04-13-08, 05:44 PM

No answer then. Pity. I acept your concession.

This paper, like all your cooked stats, is dead on arrival. Care to play again?

Scucca · 04-13-08, 05:59 PM

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Originally Posted by aegyptos

Care to play again?

Go play with dixon. You have similar traits. See ya

aegyptos · 04-13-08, 06:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Scucca

Go play with dixon. You have similar traits. See ya

Please don't go. Defend your bogus assertions and lame assumptions! Come back and I'll let you have the last word.

dixon76710 · 04-13-08, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by aegyptos

Please don't go. Defend your bogus assertions and lame assumptions! Come back and I'll let you have the last word.

Hes full of shiite. Very eloquent shiite but shiite none the less.

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In OECD comparisons of 30 countries, the UK lies 17th on low skills, 20th on intermediate and 11th on high skills.... The proportion of people with low or no qualifications is more than double that in Sweden, Japan and Canada.
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/...port051206.pdf

US is #2 with the other 28 OECD countries having a higher percentage of low skilled workers. Precisely the opposite of his claims. p 10 chart 2.1 ranks all 30 countries fom the lowest percentage of low skilled workers to highest.

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Originally Posted by Scucca

given the density of low skilled labour compared to other economies,

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Originally Posted by Scucca

However, compared to other economies, there is clearly more focus on low/unskilled labour.

Notice Ive asked him twice what "other economies" he is refering to and he cant seem to name them yet.

dixon76710 · 04-13-08, 11:45 PM

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Originally Posted by dirtyp

This is the portrait of the US economy according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. It is an economy in which government is the largest employer. Manufacturing employment comprises just under 10% of total employment and about 12% of private sector employment. Everything else is services, and not particularly high level services.

Is this a portrait of a super economy?
Government is the Largest Employer: The Fading American Economy

????? The US has a GDP per capita of $46,000 per year, among the highest in the world. And in 1990 18.4% of workers were employed by government. In 2006 16.9% worked for government so I am not sure how you arrived at your conclusions.

aegyptos · 04-14-08, 09:07 PM

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Originally Posted by dixon76710

Notice Ive asked him twice what "other economies" he is refering to and he cant seem to name them yet.

He can't answer because he doesn't actually know this material. He's probably a uni student with library access to JSTOR or MUSE.

Scucca · 04-15-08, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by aegyptos

He can't answer because he doesn't actually know this material. He's probably a uni student with library access to JSTOR or MUSE.

Your personal attacks really do lack flair. Something to work on perhaps! In the mean time, I'd recommend you read Leuven et al (2004, Explaining international differences in male skill wage differentials by differences in demand and supply of skill, Economic Journal, Vol 114, pp 466-486). This looks at the supply & demand reasoning behind the poor wage performance of US low skilled employees. It finds that it cannot be explained by differences in labour protection. Instead, its due to low skilled labour abundance.

dixon76710 · 04-15-08, 02:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Scucca

In the mean time, I'd recommend you read Leuven et al (2004, Explaining international differences in male skill wage differentials by differences in demand and supply of skill, Economic Journal, Vol 114, pp 466-486).

We were looking for something to support your assertions about

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Originally Posted by Scucca

the density of low skilled labour compared to other economies

and

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Originally Posted by Scucca

compared to other economies, there is clearly more focus on low/unskilled labour.

Not another irrelevant economics paper presented to avoid the topic of discussion.

donsutherland1 · 04-15-08, 05:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Scucca

I didn't say it didn't. However, compared to other economies, there is clearly more focus on low/unskilled labour.

Scucca,

As the economies against which you are comparing the U.S. has become a matter of contention, could you please specify which ones? It would be helpful for purposes of examining the data.

Also, there is no restriction against posting relevant sections of academic papers so long as the amount of content quoted is within the constraints that reasonably define fair use.

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aegyptos Banned Join Date: Dec 2007 Last Seen: 11-11-09 05:53 AM Posts: 1,775 Thanks: 115 Thanked 317 Times in 236 Posts Total Awards: 1	Re: Government is the Largest Employer: The Fading American Economy No answer then. Pity. I acept your concession. This paper, like all your cooked stats, is dead on arrival. Care to play again?

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