Re: Talking of old jokes


David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
constantinopoli@xxxxxxxxx writes:

So if benefits packages are not an evil foisted upon workers by the
fools in government, then removing the benefits package will not
affect the total cost of hiring.

But they *are*. You know that, don't you? Benefits being an
important part of job compensation is a legacy of WWII wage controls;
companies looking to compete for scarce employees found something they
were allowed to make better under the wage controls.

I don't know the details. My guess is that it doesn't make much of a
difference, but I may be overoptimistic. But if there is an
intervention in the market that increases the cost of employment, then
the fix is to remove that intervention, not *add another intervention
on top of that* that makes it even more costly for employers to employ.
And that's what the the illegal status of some immigrants does.

Suppose it became illegal for anyone to hire Chinese-Americans (just to
pick a group). A small number of employers would still risk hiring
them. And some of those might not give whatever the law requires -
minimum wage, benefits package, whatever. But surely it seems highly
probable that the vast majority of employers would not be pleased if
the government made it illegal to hire Chinese-Americans. Only a small
number of all employers would use the situation to their advantage.

The case is the same with illegal aliens.

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