tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post8322126004967369812..comments2024-03-28T20:28:01.733-04:00Comments on Mike Norman Economics: Job Guarantee as a Policy Variable — Brian Romanchukmike normanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03296006882513340747noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-8211402478853330362020-01-24T07:44:40.462-05:002020-01-24T07:44:40.462-05:00The job guarantee also gives those who chosen it t...The job guarantee also gives those who chosen it the right to organize themselves as workers as the job guarantee is set to be a real job. That gives workers a power to claim/ detain deteriorating descent working conditions also in private sector, hence a floor of descent working conditions.S400https://www.blogger.com/profile/01282349400341912187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-65148334853349980932020-01-24T07:30:46.845-05:002020-01-24T07:30:46.845-05:00“ Minimum wage laws can set a wage floor“
No mech...“ Minimum wage laws can set a wage floor“<br /><br />No mechanism to create jobs there meaning that THAT makes it a wage CEALING.<br /><br />A job guarantee has the component that private sector has to compete with the conditions set in job guarantee. S400https://www.blogger.com/profile/01282349400341912187noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-26803685235563364272020-01-23T18:24:02.201-05:002020-01-23T18:24:02.201-05:00Minimum wage laws can set a wage floor so the true...Minimum wage laws can set a wage floor so the true purpose of a JG is to set a wage CEILING by providing a buffer stock of pre-disciplined, pre-broken wage slaves for the private sector to draw from.<br /><br />Not that a buffer stock of wage slaves can set either a wage floor (because of automation) nor a wage ceiling (because of the unique skills some humans can provide).Andrew Andersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14296407661618321637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-65607615133876172722020-01-23T08:23:21.152-05:002020-01-23T08:23:21.152-05:00Your 'normal' might not be the same as som...Your 'normal' might not be the same as somebody else's....<br /><br />If JG is under full govt control then easier to avoid something like this human trafficking issue in a libertarian human scum's "free market!" type of implementation...<br /><br />Matt Frankohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11082502216984169113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-1255423485320087032020-01-23T07:23:58.769-05:002020-01-23T07:23:58.769-05:00Matt, That's interesting stuff about prostitut...Matt, That's interesting stuff about prostitution, but when advocating private sector JG I had in mind a variety of more normal occupations...:-)Ralph Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09443857766263185665noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-25978709892741891372020-01-23T05:34:50.426-05:002020-01-23T05:34:50.426-05:00Ralph
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...Ralph<br /><br />https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/1482371/If-you-dont-take-a-job-as-a-prostitute-we-can-stop-your-benefits.htmlMatt Frankohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978352335097260145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2761684730989137546.post-56752271651878535962020-01-23T04:58:45.591-05:002020-01-23T04:58:45.591-05:00I left a comment there as follows.
Brian says in ...I left a comment there as follows.<br /><br />Brian says in relation to JG people, “…..it should be noted that they are not being hired to run a business that makes a profit. They are being paid to provide services, but those services are not meant to act as a direct competition to the private sector.”<br /><br />Actually there have been JG type schemes where those concerned ARE TAKEN ON by the private sector. There was one such scheme in Switzerland. See:<br /><br />https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/154/microeconometric-evaluation-of-the-active-labour-market-policy-in-switzerland<br /><br />One advantage of private sector JG is that the private sector is better at employing the relatively unskilled than the public sector. Second, the evidence from Switzerland, is that private sector JG improves the employability of those concerned more than public sector JG. <br /><br />Ralph Musgravehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09443857766263185665noreply@blogger.com