Monday, 4 March 2019

how do we boost wages?

Ricardian ambivalence has more evidence on the weakness of the labour market.
Greg Jericho alludes to this as well.
RBA Governor Lowe is almost pleading for wages to rise . It appears waiting for wages to eventually rise is liking waiting for Godot!

I'm sure some people who dislike neo-liberalism will say re-regulate the labour market and this does have a superficial respectability however there is one HUGE problem.
The Unions are vastly weaker now than in previous times. Wages might increase in some areas but not overall.
I cannot see this trend  slowing let alone reversing.

As can be seem I have no answer to the question I have posed. We have entered the era of labour market de-regulation and could well look to the USA to see how this pans out

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