#Wages

Michiel de Haas

MichieldeHaas

/1 Proud to share my new paper in the Journal of African History @JAH_editors on the large scale migration from Rwanda and Burundi to Uganda during the colonial era: http://bit.ly/2P9Paal

Michael Pettis

michaelxpettis

This is a good interview on trade with the always-intelligent @ProfSteveKeen. The problem with global trade isn’t trade itself. It is persistent trade imbalances, and most proponents of free trade

Ian Edward Caveny, Glossolalia Liturgist #W🔥T

poetinbabylon

One interesting signpost for how seriously bizarre our 21st C economic situation is: for as long as I've been in-and-around ministry work, I've heard older ministers complain about how low-paying

Theoretically Brewing Co.

TheoryBrew

With so many discussions lately about private vs public employees at Alberta hospitals doing the very necessary work of cleaning and sanitization, there has been a lot of speculation about

BBC News (UK)

BBCNews

From today, businesses with staff on furlough will have to pay 10% of their wagesAlmost 10 million workers have had their wages paid by the government, during the coronavirus pandemicOn

PD Web

abovethebreak3

THIS IS NOT AN ENCOURAGING OR UPLIFTING STORY.a man was leveraged out wages for his excellent labor bc NBA owners collude to keep GL wages down. The format of deprivation

Ioana Marinescu

mioana

#Monopsony at #NBERSI! New work in progress by @EDerenoncourt & co-authors shows that voluntary wage increases by the likes of Amazon and Walmart force competitors to post higher wages (see

K. Alexander Adams

KAlexanderAdams

Really? *no* credible evidence? That’s strong wording - and it’s totally wrong. I’ll list a few papers showing that claim is false. [THREAD]https://twitter.com/maxboot/status/1252758166435057664 1/Jaeger et al. 2018: the immigration literature

Legacy Flan

Flannyballs

Guardiola is right on Wenger and spending by the way. Look beyond the transfer spend at our wage bill. When we were at our best, our wage bill was way

Kate Taylor

Kate_H_Taylor

NEW: A McDonald's franchisee org says unemployment benefits are making it a nightmare for restaurants to hire https://www.businessinsider.com/mcdonalds-franchisees-blame-labor-shortage-on-unemployment-benefits-2021-5 The group has an in

NCVO Volunteering

NCVOvolunteers

1/8 Many organisations are furloughing employees in response to the #coronavirus pandemic, but not following the rules from @HMRCgovuk on #volunteering could block their job retention grants. 2/8 Last week,

Rob

mariani_jr

if you can't find enough workers at your current wages, you offer higher wages. that's how markets work!republidumbs think business owners should never be the uncompensated losers from a shift

Flan, one of the Foyer System

fantasmavoid

As an Autistic person, I would like:Public transportation where groups of men can't assault me without impunity, whether it's cops shaking me down for a ticket or white dudes with

Surya Kanegaonkar

suryakane

Bureaucratic reform is probably the most important step to take once this second wave is under control. A country of 1.4 billion cannot be run by one man with a

Dan Sheehan

ItsDanSheehan

Former Instacart shopper here: they pay poverty wages and you all still expect some sort of luxury service. Shoppers get harangued about avocado freshness by the most entitled people alive,

John Grigsby

JohnRGrigsby

This was great fun to write with superb coauthors (incl. @Ahu_Yildirmaz). We study the patterns of nominal wage adjustments using administrative payroll data from @ADP in order to shed light