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Posted on 11/27/2012 11:39:40 AM PST by zeestephen
"Whenever you see some business person complaining how he can’t find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they’re offering."
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A free market works like this:
I am free to hire any willing worker who I wish and pay them what I wish and that they will accept. You are free to choose to accept or not accept that job at that pay.
If I cannot find someone to work at the pay I offer then I will have to raise my offer until someone accepts it. If you cannot find a job at your desired pay then you may have to lower your requested pay until you get a job.
The job I have may not provide enough benefit to me to raise the offer so the job will go unfilled. Or the person under consideration may not produce enough economic benefit to justify higher pay. You may refuse a job because it does not provide enough benefit and remain unemployed.
That is how all free markets work absent coercion and restrictions. In a free market there are no visas or quotas or waivers because there are no restrictions to start with. The US does not have a free market for labor so do not bash what does not exist.
Thats right, those Obozo voters voted their self interest instead of voting for a capable leader or for voting for their country.
“Thats right, those Obozo voters voted their self interest instead of voting for a capable leader or for voting for their country.”
The problem is NOT that they voted for their self interest - we all look out for our self interest and we absolutely should do that.
The problem is that they’re being shortsighted, unwise. They may have voted for their SHORT TERM self interest, but in the LONG TERM Obama’s policies will definitely NOT be in their interests.
So the distinction is between being foolish vs wise. The fools won.
“ask what wage they’re offering”
The wage would-be workers want may just not match what the expected productivity is worth. High unemployment & welfare handouts make not working a viable option, requiring untenable wages for actual work to compete therewith. If the value of the work is less than wages needed to attract a worker, the work doesn’t get done and the worker doesn’t get paid.
Employer funds are not unlimited.
The principle of uniform wage rates states that in a free society there is a tendency for wage rates to be equal within a level of labor but unequal between levels. All other considerations being equal, professional level work requires higher pay to attract workers than skilled labor, and skilled labor requires higher pay than unskilled labor.So if an employer wants skilled labor, he will have to pay more than unskilled labor wages.
Yes, if you offered $1 million per hour, there would be a line for almost anything. But Propagandist Paul Krugman avoids the fact that wages can only go so high before they render an enterprise uneconomic. From articles and job ads I have seen, many would-be employers are offering rather high wages. The “unfilled jobs” generally require highly specialized technical skills and experience, a clean background, high reliability (”character” as someone posted above), etc. (An amazing number of unfilled jobs listed in my area require high-tech skills, intel experience and a TS/SCI clearance, ruling out everyone but ex-mil and gov intel types). The problem is a lack of people with the narrowly specialized skills and reliability to qualify. Investing in training makes sense for both employers and employees only when both will commit to the job long-term. Perhaps employers need to revisit long-term employment contracts, in combination with attractive wages/benefits.
I saw a posting on Reddit written by an HR person for an IT position. Must have five years experience in a programming language only 3-4 years old.
It is depressing how many job postings are written to exclude Americans, so that employers can then bring in immigrants on visa to pay a lower wage AND have on a short leash.
This isn’t the entire equation. Revenue models may not support wage payout of what the market might bear. If an employee is not adding value to a company ABOVE his salary and benefits, there’s no reason to hire him.
I think "increasing shareholder value" is sheer stupidity in some cases. So I save $1.00 per unit on computer chips made in the PRC. Do you really want a communist country as a supplier for computer chips for anything we use in the USA?
Just look at the things the've done with foodstuffs.
So you are an open border gloBULList. I am not. Almost everything you said was true when applied to US citizens, when you start importing people then I get to have a say. Sorry bub. The free market ends at the shoreline. We are AMERICANS first whether you like it or not.
If
—no one wants to sweep your floor for $8.00 an hour, and
—everyone would want to sweep your floor for $50.00 an hour, then
—you’ll have to find the number between $8.00 and $50.00 an hour at which you will attract at least one job applicant, or
— sweep your own dang floor.
All y’all smart enough to start and run your own businesses should be able to figure that one out.
Have you ever noticed that, without exception, in HR departments and in upper management positions there are no H-1b visa employees?
You can make it a closed market if you wish but you wont drive wages up and you will drive jobs out of the country. I am sure you know what wages should be and are more than willing to have the government enforce your idea. Should make you popular with the AFL-CIO.
Yes it applies to americans but I will assume you are not in favor of immigrants who become citizens either.
I am really glad your mindset was not predominant when my family came here. They worked real cheap in coal mines and logging.
Not if tariffs are erected to keep the profit margin too low to off shore. And this is to protect the 94% of workers that are non union.
Re: “Revenue models may not support [a high] wage payout.”
Agree.
But just say that, and nothing else.
Instead, businesses have begun asking taxpayers to train their workers, and they ask government to increase the supply of cheap labor.
If you can’t afford the labor, close your business, or start a new business.
Not necessarily. Besides the political class and "connected" people, who do you think will be LAST to feel the effects of a bankrupt government? It will be the Democrat moocher base, guaranteed. Working, taxpaying, traditional American families will get hammered bloody and nearly dead before there are any real cuts to the freebies handed over by Democrat politicians to the moochers in exchange for their votes. And the moochers know it. They're "entitled". And they want their free stuff today.
Two years from now, or two weeks from now, is not even on their radar screens.
What are you smoking?
First, businesses ARE taxpayers. Most are big time taxpayers.
Second, they wouldn't ask government to train their workers - - most "labor" is on-the-job training anyway. Government "job training" programs are a political pander to help politicians look like they care about the unemployed. The politicians LOVE government "job training" programs.
Part of the problem with salaries and wages is that there is very limited information available to the average job seeker.
Most people do not know what the median pay is for the job they are seeking, and most people do not know where their skills and performance rank on the broader pay range.
For many managerial and professional jobs, it is actually considered uncouth to discuss salary during the first interview.
At virtually all jobs - white collar or blue - management discourages talk about pay between co-workers, and frankly, most co-workers are extremely reluctant to discuss their pay with others.
Thus, employers hold ALL the high cards on this issue.
HR Departments are highly informed about pay scales.
In fact, ten years ago when I worked in the computer chip industry in Portland OR, every major manufacturer SHARED their blue collar wage scales with every other HR Department.
I think wages and salaries should be completely transparent.
In a public company, the pay of the top officers must be reported each quarter.
A CEO at one company knows exactly what the CEO at another company is being paid.
The result?
CEO pay goes up faster than any other job in the economy.
I think if all companies were required to report the pay of all employees, wages for many jobs would instantly start to rise.
I have read a dozen stories in the last few months about businesses that claim they cannot find skilled workers.
They are not suggesting the government train them.
They are suggesting that the government PAY to train them.
Business wants work-ready employees.
They don't want to pay anyone for training.
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