Friday, February 21, 2014

Strange labor mkt

Two posts back, FK said it is explanation 2.

Well, I am not so sure. Employment lost steam last year -- as he himself pointed out in the chart he stole from LCA -- but at the very same time real wages were increasing. This automatically leads us to story 1: participation rate (not sure if it is FIES fault, but anyways...)

Further, the labor demand story cannot possibly be right. I look around and all I see are gloomy entrepreneurs.

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  1. Naercio argues that it is labor supply but due to parents' higher wages, not good...
    http://cliente.linearclipping.com.br/cnte/detalhe_noticia.asp?cd_sistema=93&codnot=9875320

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