- 28.12.17 21:59
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"Whether France has a decent labor code, or actually has a backwards labor code that has severely damaged their economy for decades, is clearly open to debate given the high persistent unemployment rate of France.
"France's labor code has not resulted in high wages, the US has higher wages in every regard. It has not resulted in high employment, the US always has a lower unemployment rate. It has not resulted in faster growing wages, US wage growth averages three to four times faster over the last decade. It has not resulted in faster economic growth, US GDP growth is typically four or five times faster.
"When US wages grow at only 2% or 2.5%, we wonder what's wrong. In France, wage growth has averaged about 0.4% the last three years; the 0.6% growth level it put in a few quarters ago, was a three year high. If the French labor code is so desirable, why is French wage growth so atrocious?"
Ja ASV algas katru gadu pieaug par 2-2.5%, ja algas Francijā aug par 0.5% gadā, kas no tā sanāk? Sanāk tāds kā "balansējošs" efekts, ka ASV darbaspēks tiek nežēlīgi ekspluatēts, bet tiek atalgots par produktivitāti (lielāks peļņas procents tiek izmaksāts algās).
Savukārt Francija veļ gurķi, līdz kamēr algas atspoguļo ekonomisko situāciju: ka uzņēmējdarbība ir tik nerentabla, tik samudžināta, ka starp uzņēmuma ienākumiem (jeb cenu līmeni - starptautiskas konkurences apstākļos) un algās izmaksāto ir liela plaisa.
Nopietna tēma būtu parunāt par korporatīvajiem ienākumiem, peļņu, un to cik daudz uzņēmums izmaksā algās. ASV, piemēram, vadošo menedžeru algu apjoms salīdzinot ar darbinieku atalgojuma mediānas vērtību ir kliedzoši pārvērtēts, tik ļoti ka man prātā nāk Marksa definīcija: "belief common to both factory owner and factory worker that labour may fairly be bought for wages is a mystification. The illusion conceals the fact that, as the value of a commodity depends on the labour invested in it, the owner is appropriating as profit what belongs by right to the labourer: profits are unpaid wages."