Showing posts with label wages. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wages. Show all posts
Saturday, October 7, 2017

6/10/17: Life-Cycle Wages and Trends: September US Wage Inflation in Perspective

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Last month, I wrote an editorial for @MarketWatch on the declining fortunes of the American wage earners. And this week, the BLS released ...
Friday, April 21, 2017

21/4/17: Any evidence that immigrants are undermining welfare of the natives?

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Given current debates surrounding the impact of migrant labour on native (and previously arriving migrants) wages, jobs security, career p...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

10/12/15: R v G and all the Pikettian Theory Malarky

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You know the Pikettian Thesis that if return on capital exceeds in the long run economic growth, then capital income appreciation relative...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

18/2/2014: Wages and Employment: Irish labour market plight

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times column from February 9, 2014. In recent months, Irish Government has gone into an overd...
Thursday, June 20, 2013

20/6/2013: Heroes of our times and earnings...

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Latest data on (annual) earnings, to highlight the vast gains in Irish 'competitiveness' And the heroic folks who earned a 4.2%...
Monday, May 13, 2013

13/5/2013: Work Hours, Education Years and Wages

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A fascinating fact: "An average person born in the United States in the second half of the 19th century completed 7 years of schoolin...
Monday, April 15, 2013

15/4/2013: Bonus Culture: A model of social efficiencies in the presence of bonuses

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The global financial crisis has exposed the absurd effects of short-termism when it comes to bonuses on long-term sustainability and effic...
Saturday, May 9, 2009

An interesting chart: destruction of wealth

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Here is an interesting set of charts I came across in doing some work recently. All are for the US and all showing some very disturbing long...
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