Political idiocies
May. 24th, 2006 10:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
trixtahJust have to vent; sometimes I shouldn't read the newspaper.
According to some academic twit back home, raising the minimum wage could squeeze many Maori and Pacific Island people "out of the labour market".
So, that all highlights residual racism, then? Or the lag in education for the lower socio-economic classes (most of which happen to be Maori/Pacific Islander - although I can vouch for the fact they're not all non-Pakeha)? Eh? No, there apparently needs to be a "more balanced debate" over the "blunt instrument" of minimum wage rises.
According to some academic twit back home, raising the minimum wage could squeeze many Maori and Pacific Island people "out of the labour market".
"Given the option, employers might switch to hiring people with more skills and education or older people with more experience.
"My study found for Maori who find the minimum wage binding, a 10 per cent rise in the real minimum wage would see a 15.8 per cent point fall in employment propensity, a drop of 13.5 hours usually worked each week, a 5.7 per cent point increase in unemployment propensity and a 10.9 per cent point increase in inactivity, that is, not working or studying."
So, that all highlights residual racism, then? Or the lag in education for the lower socio-economic classes (most of which happen to be Maori/Pacific Islander - although I can vouch for the fact they're not all non-Pakeha)? Eh? No, there apparently needs to be a "more balanced debate" over the "blunt instrument" of minimum wage rises.
