The article is, but the labour market doesn’t exist in a vacuum
Of course not, but we still have relatively more people in 61 and 611 than students requiring the service. I can’t mentally rectify that.
A shortage of arbourist is relatively inconsequential to a shortage of pool maintainers, if you have 40% more pool repairers for only 15% more pools.
Sounds like you found a good enough source but are over thinking it. Don’t do that?
Okay, so the job vacancy rate is 4.7 right now instead of the 3.5 average.
But, all industries are demanding 45.1% population working instead of the average 43.89%.
So I’m seeing a correlation between vacancy and demand for jobs relative to population; and is unrelated to relative population working.
If we use payroll employees from the vacancies table, rather than global employment, percentage of population working is extremely stable around 42.6% ± 1.3%.
Therefore we aren’t short employees because we have fewer workers relative to population, we are short employees because we are demanding more employees relative to population.
I did dump Q4 2020 though Q2 2021, the 3 quarters following the two quarters with no data due to Coronavirus.
[The benefactor deserves the spoils]
Sure, still need less labour hours per output. Edit: as you agreed
I will argue that some in the computer computer space got filthy rich. The people who put their code up as open source, only to have it repackaged as proprietary, not so much. But that’s the same in any industry.
Edit: after reading truncated part
[Women entered the workforce because of automation]
I’m pretty sure they entered the workforce due to the great wars. And each time the soldiers returned there was massive labour upheaval.
The percentage of women in the labour market increases when the CPI increases.
And the population producing goods have remained relatively static since 1946 (3 million), Canadian labour growth has been in services.
Anyways captial not sharing gains always end in the gains being shared regardless. The question is if the capital owners will do it themselves, have it wrested by labour disputations, or have it wrested by war.
I’m full steam on the university production model being a sham. Not necessarily that what they do is bad, but that the economic benefits promised to prospective students is inaccurate, has been for some time, and the narrative has never adjusted.
A shortage of arbourist is relatively inconsequential to a shortage of pool maintainers, if you have 40% more pool repairers for only 15% more pools.
40% more pool repairers are inconsequential if they will only work on residential pools and what you have is a commercial pool. You haven’t dug deep enough into the data yet.
If we use payroll employees from the vacancies table, rather than global employment
I believe we are talking about workers, not employees. A thing you might have heard of that happened over the last few years is said to have been especially hard on workers not categorized as employees. Perhaps they are who disappeared? Either by leaving the workforce or by becoming employees, rebalancing with any employees who left the workforce in the same period?
The people who put their code up as open source, only to have it repackaged as proprietary, not so much.
Obviously. As we have already discussed at length, capital only provides when it works for you. Throwing some code up on GitHub doesn’t put it to work, and if someone else puts it work it isn’t working for you.
Sure, still need less labour hours per output.
Yes, but, as before, need more hours to fill in the new opportunities for workers. Maybe you haven’t noticed, but we aren’t living like they did in the 1800s. If we did, then yes, capital could do most of the work and people could laze around most days, having little to do. But that’s not the choice we made.
40% more pool repairers are inconsequential if they will only work on residential pools and what you have is a commercial pool. You haven’t dug deep enough into the data yet.
That’s my point, the data on why we need more people for the same education isn’t available. The data on why we have fewer educators per child, despite more pers in the industry isn’t available. We’re only told there is a shortage of educators.
That data can generate insight into how to mitigate or reduce the educator to student ratio deficit.
That data could also generate insight into reducing the cost per student, or increasing educator:student ratios at the same cost.
Note: I’m using educator to teacher and support staff, I’m not sure if this is the correct terminology?
Perhaps they are who disappeared? Either by leaving the workforce or by becoming employees, rebalancing with any employees who left the workforce in the same period?
That’s a plausible explanation. Probably doesn’t apply to education. Perhaps we’re seeing reductions in parental volunteerism within education, as a byproduct of increasing cost of living?
capital could do most of the work and people could laze around most days, having little to do. But that’s not the choice we made.
Here in lies my greatest problem. Not necessarily that we made that choice, but the byproduct that we have increased the costs to participate in society. Which comes with the third order effect of increasingly minimizing those who cannot afford that participation cost.
We’ve also reduced jobs/trades that were historically available with a low work : high idle time. For example, farming has historically had high idle time (with backbreaking surge to be sure) but with all the innovations I don’t think anyone doubts the long, year round hours farmers are reporting.
the data on why we need more people for the same education isn’t available.
Not available because it doesn’t exist, not available because your request to see it was rejected?
Probably doesn’t apply to education.
It would not apply to teachers hired by a public school board, but that’s hardly where teaching ends. Guitar teachers, for example, are quite likely to not be employees. We don’t know the breakdown of what kind of teachers are involved.
For example, farming has historically had high idle time
Modern farming has high idle time, for the most part. Which is why 80% of farmers today have off-farm jobs. Being a farmer myself, I’m able to be here right now thanks to that idle time. Historically, not so much. There was always something needing to be done – stuff we can sick capital at nowadays.
but the byproduct that we have increased the costs to participate in society.
The byproduct is that you get to participate in society. Historically, that farmer you speak of maybe got to town once a week to stock up on supplies and got to see his neighbours at church on Sunday. Otherwise, that was his only real interaction with the outside world.
