By Owen Paine on Tuesday January 31, 2012 04:18 PM
http://www.cepr.net/documents/publications/low-wage-2012-01.pdf
"The United States has the highest share of low-wage work in the OECD countries
..... the incidence of low-wage work in the United States has been rising for at least three decades, from just over 20 percent in 1979 to just under 30 percent in 2010"
defined how
those with wages at least one third lower then national median wage
compare to ??
take france she's under 12%
interesting data here worth a look
Comments (7)
Interesting indeed.
Posted by MJS | January 31, 2012 5:57 PM
Posted on January 31, 2012 17:57
What's the first derivative of the same stat in the other OECD countries over the same time interval? I bet it's down too. As always, we Amurricans lead the world, and all those poor frog-eaters and other Yurrupeans just have to tag along in our train. A shining city on a hill -- that's us.
Posted by MJS | January 31, 2012 10:56 PM
Posted on January 31, 2012 22:56
Anyone read Eagleton's "Why Marx Was Right"? Worth a look?
Posted by Chomskyzinn | February 1, 2012 9:01 AM
Posted on February 1, 2012 09:01
yes neo liberal policy by the hegemon
pulls every other trading partner
more or less
in the same direction
something in the numbers strikes me as suspcious however
belgium 4% vs us at 25% or what ever
something(s)
isn't being counted the same way
in both nations
lots more needs excavation here
but my my
is it a nice eye opener
for anyone interested in nation specific
comparative ratios
and their directions and speeds of change
Posted by op | February 1, 2012 9:05 AM
Posted on February 1, 2012 09:05
Keep polishing your statue of Karl Marx, Ouchy Dawson Smith Flugennock. Maybe a genie will erupt from The Marx's mouth and grant you three wishes.
You're mighty persuasive when you adopt the fake-humble Smith persona, but the opposite when you pretend to be OW! IN PAIN! Chomsky. The Ouchy character is more obnoxious than self-proclaimed genius Michael Albert.
Posted by Paco Picopiedra | February 1, 2012 9:38 AM
Posted on February 1, 2012 09:38
Michael Albert ?
He of paracon fame or what ever it's called ?
Now that iIS a delicious insult my friend
Bravo
Posted by Op | February 1, 2012 10:56 AM
Posted on February 1, 2012 10:56
I guess the jig is up. I may as well admit that Paco has "us" pegged. I'd claim to be the mastermind of the hoax, but I'm not even a real person. I'm a recombinant perl bot, unleashed in the final days of the Soviet Union by vengeful KGB hackers.
MARX WILL COME AGAIN! There is no god but Marx and Lenin is his prophet...
Posted by Al Schumann | February 1, 2012 11:56 PM
Posted on February 1, 2012 23:56