-------- Original Message -------- Subject: jobs Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 09:14:46 -0500 From: Donald Boudreaux <dboudrea@private> ................ 31 March 2004 Editor, The Wall Street Journal 200 Liberty Street New York, NY 10281 Dear Editor: In his letter of March 31st, William Hawkins merely assumes that manufacturing jobs are better than service-sector jobs. He's mistaken. The average hourly wage in the U.S. for non-supervisory professional and business services workers now is 9.6% higher than is the average hourly wage for non-supervisory manufacturing workers. And this difference is increasing. In 1980 this difference was less than one percent; in 1990 it was 3.3%; in 2000 it was 8.3%. The bulk of high-paying jobs is in the service sector. It's time that people abandon the irrational fetish for manufacturing. Sincerely, Donald J. Boudreaux Chairman, Department of Economics George Mason University Fairfax, VA 22030 703-993-1157 (office) 703-993-1133 (fax) 703-426-9299 (home) 571-426-5751 (cell) dboudrea@private _______________________________________________ Politech mailing list Archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Moderated by Declan McCullagh (http://www.mccullagh.org/)
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