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It definitely affects these figures, because they are filtered out of the income statistics. Just one of the many ways figures are skewed. Another is the low-pa
by neverrroot 2y ago
It definitely affects these figures, because they are filtered out of the income statistics. Just one of the many ways figures are skewed.
Another is the low-paid jobs done without proper employee registration by immigrants.
- feedforward 2y ago> Another is the low-paid jobs done without proper employee registration by immigrants. Because construction, lawn care, and sweatshop jobs by immigrants is all registered in the US.
- neverrroot 2y agoIt’s all about the total numbers/math. The “lack” of social system in the US that hides in the EU millions upon millions of people who don’t work for various reasons (ranging from not wanting to down to not being able to or not being employable) is definitely something that makes EU look better than it should. In many cases, they don’t even appear in the officially unemployed statistics, because they are so called social cases. At the same time, many of them also work “unofficially”, so they often end up earning more than honest people, while working much less.
- bigfudge 2y agoCan you provide some numbers to back this up. This plot suggests Germany and USA have equivalent rates of economic inactivity (which is the term to describe what you are talking about). Some Southern European countries have higher rates, but this is cultural as much as driven by economic policies.