含有〈劳动力〉标签的文章(6)
(上周英语课上老师布置了个作业:自己选择一个议题,先给两小时做研究,然后写一篇议论文章,这是我做过的最长的英语写作题,之前的都不超过300 words,很吃力不过挺有收获。)
Why Plumbing Is So Expensive in Australia?
by Egbert Tzoe
8 Feb 2018
Plumbing is extremely expensive in Australia. According to 9news, it costs $78.40 an hour on average, the highest among all kinds of trades, while a lawyer service costs only $37 an hour.[1] By contrast, an average American plumber charges $31.61(usd$24.74) an hour.[2]
The direct cause of this situation is quite straightforward: there are too few plumbers in this country. Year by year, fewer and fewer young people are willing to become a plumber. Perhaps the most revealing fact is that the average age of Australian plumbers is 55, while the overall workforce average is 38. As Mr Paddy McCrudden, an officer of Plumbing Trades Employees Union, says, “plumbers are fast becoming the dad’s army.”[3]
But why? What prevents such a high wage from attracting more young (or not so young) people into this business? There are no obvious answers, but we have some clues.
Higher education was (and is) booming in recent decades. According to Australian Bureau of Statistics, proportion of people aged 25-34 with a bachelor or higher degree increased from(more...)
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@whigzhou: 这也太牵强附会了,巴西走进口替代封闭经济,高关税培育国内制造业,最后被外债拖死,贵汁走三来一补外向型,贸易盈余多到撑,这个差别怎么强调都不过分,被原po直接无视
@whigzhou: 拉美和东亚滑向不同模式也事出有因,其中之一是劳动力禀赋差异,拉美平均智商比东亚低不止一个标准差,卖劳力没比较优势
@轻舟知寒:卖劳力为什么需要智商高?
@whigzhou: (more...)
Why Education Does Not Fix Poverty
为什么教育不能解决贫困问题
作者:Matt Bruenig @ 2015-12-2
译者:龟海海
校对:小册子(@昵称被抢的小册子)
来源:Demos,http://www.demos.org/blog/12/2/15/why-education-does-not-fix-poverty
Brookings and the American Enterprise Institute claim to have hatched a bipartisan consensus plan for reducing poverty. As exciting as that sounds, the details of the plan, unfortunately, won’t be available until David Brooks unveils them at an event on December 3rd. Nonetheless, it’s clear from the materials they have released that the consensus plan will focus on three things: education, marriage, and work.
布鲁金斯学会和美国企业协会声称已研究出一个双方都认同的计划来减少贫困【编注:布鲁金斯学会和美国企业协会分别是美国自由派和保守派阵营最具影响力的智库】。尽管听起来很令人激动,但不幸的是,David Brooks要等到12月3日的一个活动上才会公布这个计划的详情。尽管如此,根据他们之前所公布的一些资料,他们的共同计划将主要集中在三个方面:教育,婚姻和工作。
In the next few posts, I will attack all three focuses as misguided. Today’s focus will be on education, easily the most misguided of the three.
在随后的文章中我会逐步抨击所有这三个误导性的焦点。今天我将说一说教育,也是三个中最具误导性的。
1. Rehearsing the Education Poverty Argument
1. 回顾教育改变贫穷的观点
To see where the education poverty argument goes wrong, it’s helpful to explain what that argument is first. In this post, I am going to do that by pretending initially that we are in the year 1991. That year has no special significance other than that it’s the year the modern Census education questions begin.
要看清这个教育改变贫穷的观点哪里不对劲,有必要先解释一下这个观点是什么。在本文中,我会首先假装我们生活在1991年。那一年除了人口普查中开始出现教育相关问题,没有什么特别的事件。
So imagine you are an education-focused poverty person living in 1991. You peer out into the world of basic social statistics and you see this graph of adult poverty rates broken down by education:
那么我们来想象一下,你生活在1991年,并且关注通过教育改变贫穷。你往基础社会统计的世界里张望,看到这幅按教育程度统计的成人贫穷率图表:
You notice something very striking about the graph: the higher the education, the lower the poverty rate.
You go back out into the social statistics universe and you see this graph breaking down the distribution of adults across the various educational groups:
你在该图表里发现一些很令人震惊的东西:学历越高,贫困率越低。
然后你再回到社会统计领域之中,看到这幅成年人的教育程度分布图:
You combine this graph with the poverty rate graph in your mind and you have an epiphany. Because the lower educational bins have higher poverty rates and the higher educational bins have lower poverty rates, if we change the composition of adults such that a greater percentage of them wind up in the higher educational bins, that will mean lower overall poverty.
你把该图和之前的贫穷率图表综合起来,然后你瞬间顿悟。因为低学历的格子里有较高贫困率,高学历的格子里有较低贫困率,如果我们把成年人的组成换一换,多一点人落入较高学历的格子里,那总体的贫困率就会降低。
So, for instance, if we could move 9 points off the “less than high school” bar and on to the “associate” (or better) bars, we would definitely(more...)








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Technical note. For this post, I used the Official Poverty Metric (OPM) to measure poverty. This is mainly because it's the only metric for which publicly accessible microdata exists back to 1991. The OPM is deeply flawed because it excludes from its calculation taxes, tax credits, and non-cash benefits like WIC, Section 8, and Food Stamps. 技术性注解:在本文中,我运用了官方贫困数据(OPM)来量化贫困,主要是因为这是唯一公众可以查找到的1991年前的微观数据。由于没有考虑所得税、税收抵免,以及包括低收入妇女儿童健康营养补助,《住房法案》第八章下的住房补贴和食物救济券在内的非现金福利,该OPM数据有很大的缺陷。 Because the alleged poverty-reducing mechanism of higher educational attainment is that it increases market income (not welfare income or income from refundable tax credits), the OPM's flaws are not really relevant here. In short, the OPM, despite its problems, works perfectly fine here. 因为所谓高学历可以减少贫困的观点着眼于提高市场收入(而非福利收入或税收抵免返还),所以与OPM的缺陷并不相关。简而言之,尽管OPM有所不足,但在这里引用绝对没有问题。 (编辑:辉格@whigzhou) *注:本译文未经原作者授权,本站对原文不持有也不主张任何权利,如果你恰好对原文拥有权益并希望我们移除相关内容,请私信联系,我们会立即作出响应。——海德沙龙·翻译组,致力于将英文世界的好文章搬进中文世界——
用工荒还要持续多久?
辉格
2011年2月16日
新年伊始,多项报道和调查显示,国内劳动密集型行业再次遭遇用工荒,其程度看来已超过去年;如何看待这一轮民工荒乃至整体性劳动力紧缺?它还将延续多久,是季节性紧缺还是长期趋势?是通货膨胀在推动还是人口变迁的后果?对这些问题的考察,不仅将影响企业的生产安排和投资决策,也是我们观察宏观波动的一个好窗口。
其实,劳动力市场的紧缺状况在去年一整年都在持续,自从金融危机高峰期的恐慌性紧缩退去,在随后为补充危机中被清空的库存而引发的订单反弹中,已出现过一次令企业措手不及(more...)
奶粉背后的劳动力市场变迁
辉格
2008年9月21日
最近发生的奶粉事件,牵动着无数人的心,其中遭受最大打击的,无疑是中国六千多万婴儿的母亲们。对国产奶粉的信心被击溃之后,她们要么咬牙转向昂贵的进口奶粉,要么增加和延长母乳喂养,无论作何选择,都将加重她们的生活负担,而对于低收入家庭而言,这一负担原本就很沉重。
近年来,婴幼儿奶粉市场以近20%的高速度增长,而一些优势品牌的年增长率更高达一到三倍。这一高增长率的基础,是高速工业化带来的劳动力需求繁荣和剩余劳动力日(more...)