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| Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Economists????? |
| Bruce_the_vii |
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Posted: Mon Dec 01, 2008 3:38 am
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| The first peices of information I'd want to know, from statistics, would be what jobs are being created and taken by immigrants versus non-immigrants. The jobs immigrants take is a mute point. Someone else would take the job if they didn't. A statistic like what jobs immigrant takes, which... |
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| Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Economists????? |
| Bruce_the_vii |
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 3:04 pm
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Comments: 37
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| And thanks for responding. |
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| Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Economists????? |
| Bruce_the_vii |
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 2:47 pm
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Comments: 37
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| Below is the 2005 unemployment rate in Canadian cities corrected to high participation (72%). One problem with the numbers is the demographics of older people. Alberta has 3% less of the population 65 or over and they tend not to work but are included in the labour force statisic. …………………………....... |
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| Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Economists????? |
| Bruce_the_vii |
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 2:39 pm
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| Reading a few books is a good start to get some general information, but there are a lot more than seven books on economics. I have a feeling that the information you're looking for probably exists, just not necessarily in the places you're looking for it. Actually these seven books are on immigr... |
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| Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Economists????? |
| Bruce_the_vii |
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 2:32 pm
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| You're absolutely right, the labour force does not include disgruntled workers. I still don't understand what your thesis is, Either way, though, underployment and disguntled workers are not things economists ignore. If I'm correct in deciphering your beef, I will send you some journal article... |
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| Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Economists????? |
| Bruce_the_vii |
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:10 am
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| Yes. However in my 17 years of reading up on immigration I found that Economists ignore it. The labour market texts quote studies that show immigration does not affect unemployment and they just stop there. |
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| Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Economists????? |
| Bruce_the_vii |
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 9:01 am
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Comments: 37
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| OECD Employment Rates 2006 Percentage of people working of age 15 to 64 Country Australia 72.2 Austria 70.2 Belgium 60.4 Canada 72.9 Czech Rep. 65.3 Denmark 76.9 Finland 68.9 France 62.3 Germany 67.2 Greece 61.0 Hungary 57.3 Iceland 85.3 Ireland 68.1 Italy 58.4 Japan 70 Korea 63.8 Luxembour -- Me... |
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| Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Economists????? |
| Bruce_the_vii |
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:57 am
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| The Two Unemployment Indices Statistics Canada reports labour force data monthly and people such as the MPs rely on it but guess what, it’s no the labour force. It drops out hidden unemployment. The labour force survey asks if a person is unemployed and currently looking for work. If you might like... |
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| Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Economists????? |
| Bruce_the_vii |
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 8:56 am
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Comments: 37
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| Oh, dear - an actual labour economist. Thanks for responding. I have some statistics that I worked up that are pretty clear. I'll post them. |
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| Forum: Improve Canada! Topic: What Canada should do about the financial crisis. |
| Bruce_the_vii |
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 6:30 am
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| There's a problem in democracies and with the public with white elephantism. Everyone has a better white elephant they want built and sometimes it gets done. I have some of my own. You are pretty guilty, your list is multi $100 billions, jet fighters yet. On the basic idea you are espoucing, infra... |
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| Forum: Canadian Immigration Topic: How can we stop this immigration immediately? |
| Bruce_the_vii |
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 6:19 am
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Comments: 161
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| Not if you employ people in low paying jobs. If your economic growth is in McLabour these are actually subsidized in the nanny state and aggrivate the cost of socialism. You would be better off contracting the bottom with tight labour markets and higher minimum wage. |
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| Forum: Canadian Immigration Topic: How can we stop this immigration immediately? |
| Bruce_the_vii |
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 5:21 am
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Comments: 161
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| I think you should limit immigration to the number of good jobs available, and that's not many. |
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| Forum: Canadian Politics Topic: Economists????? |
| Bruce_the_vii |
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Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2008 5:08 am
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| Thanks for responding Axeman, no one else did. I said immigration but the statistic above is really the labour markets. Very oddly economists have no idea what is happening in the labour markets. So this is pretty central in the field. Specifically the official unemployment figure doesn't catch the ... |
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| Forum: Canadian Immigration Topic: How can we stop this immigration immediately? |
| Bruce_the_vii |
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 5:09 pm
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Comments: 161
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| Hot chicks makes sense. This idea that skilled immigration is what we need is opposed to the notion we should train more Canadian youth. |
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| Forum: Canadian Immigration Topic: How can we stop this immigration immediately? |
| Bruce_the_vii |
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Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2008 4:46 pm
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Comments: 161
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