tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587064.post116418980091414433..comments2023-06-19T13:39:00.651+02:00Comments on BONOBO LAND: Tight US Labour Market in the US in 2007?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587064.post-1164817888071454382006-11-29T17:31:00.000+01:002006-11-29T17:31:00.000+01:00Hello Edward,Thinking further, I realized I needed...Hello Edward,<BR/><BR/>Thinking further, I realized I needed to elaborate on something above.<BR/>Namely:<BR/><BR/>"Right-wing women are significantly more likely to have children than <BR/>those who aren't."<BR/><BR/>The problem with that statement is what does "right-wing" mean? In <BR/>the U.S. this last the century, the Republican Party has more or <BR/>less consistently been labeled "Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587064.post-1164715358528713432006-11-28T13:02:00.000+01:002006-11-28T13:02:00.000+01:00Hi again Mark. And thanks for the comments. You ar...Hi again Mark. And thanks for the comments. You are obviously going into this in some detail. Go over to the Demography Matters blog and you will find I just posted on what you say about Sweden. Tomorrow I will post on the other part.<BR/><BR/>See you.Edward Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10384039867580949531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587064.post-1164672267444739122006-11-28T01:04:00.000+01:002006-11-28T01:04:00.000+01:00Sweden seems a good empical test of what laws favo...Sweden seems a good empical test of what laws favoring mothers <BR/>can do.<BR/><BR/><BR/>See http://www.mises.org/story/1406<BR/><BR/><BR/>Quoting the author, Allan Carlson:<BR/><BR/>"The Myrdals fleshed out this program in their best selling 1934 book, <BR/>Crisis in the Population Question, a brilliantly argued volume which <BR/>substantially transformed Sweden. While Swedish conservatives Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587064.post-1164671066689401022006-11-28T00:44:00.000+01:002006-11-28T00:44:00.000+01:00Four hypotheses (or maybe five) for why fertility ...Four hypotheses (or maybe five) for why fertility should drop in the <BR/>twentieth century occur to me more or less immediately.<BR/><BR/>1) Prior to this last century, children were insurance against old <BR/>age. Those aging adults who did not have children would be more or <BR/>less constant examples of the risks of not doing this.<BR/><BR/>2) Prior to this last century, children were a Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587064.post-1164643305815583932006-11-27T17:01:00.000+01:002006-11-27T17:01:00.000+01:00Oh, and this:"Yes, but Croatia, Latvia, and Lithua...Oh, and this:<BR/><BR/>"Yes, but Croatia, Latvia, and Lithuania were all recently communist<BR/>and thus definitely welfare states. Is your thinking that since<BR/>they are now capitalist and their fertility rates are not improving<BR/>that this is an argument against the thesis that free markets boost<BR/>fertility?"<BR/><BR/>There are two points hear, and on the second one very definitely yes. Edward Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10384039867580949531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587064.post-1164642057158350682006-11-27T16:40:00.000+01:002006-11-27T16:40:00.000+01:00Hi Mark,Nice to see you are still reading me.This ...Hi Mark,<BR/><BR/>Nice to see you are still reading me.<BR/><BR/>This is a complex picture and I have no easy explanations. All I would say is that simple linear correlates of the kind that are being made with welfare systems, labour market participation rates simply don't work in any straightforward fashion.<BR/><BR/>Obviously simply talking 'welfare' also hides a multitudue of differences. Edward Hughhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10384039867580949531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3587064.post-1164620862256668062006-11-27T10:47:00.000+01:002006-11-27T10:47:00.000+01:00Edward,Yes, but Croatia, Latvia, and Lithuania wer...Edward,<BR/><BR/>Yes, but Croatia, Latvia, and Lithuania were all recently communist <BR/>and thus definitely welfare states. Is your thinking that since <BR/>they are now capitalist and their fertility rates are not improving <BR/>that this is an argument against the thesis that free markets boost <BR/>fertility?<BR/><BR/>Now I have doubts about Tyler's proposition that free markets promote <BRAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com