Há dias li este artigo de Paul Krugman, "
Jobs and Skills and Zombies", e não conseguia acreditar no que estava a acontecer, lia Krugman e concordava com ele. Tive de aguardar uns dias e reler, para concluir que efectivamente estamos de acordo:
"multiple careful studies have found no support for claims that inadequate worker skills explain high unemployment.
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But the belief that America suffers from a severe “skills gap” is one of those things that everyone important knows must be true, because everyone they know says it’s true. It’s a prime example of a zombie idea — an idea that should have been killed by evidence, but refuses to die.
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for example, that workers who know how to operate a sewing machine are seeing significant raises in wages, but I very much doubt that these are the skills people who make a lot of noise about the alleged gap have in mind."
Na onda do que James Galbraith escreveu em "The Predator State" e que referi, ao longo dos anos em:
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