Comments on: The French Struggle to Assimilate Their Youth into the Workforce. We Don’t. Why? http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/03/21/the-french-struggle-to-assimilate-their-youth-into-the-workforce-we-dont-why/ The Business End of the Blogosphere Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:28:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: TBlumer http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/03/21/the-french-struggle-to-assimilate-their-youth-into-the-workforce-we-dont-why/#comment-5815 TBlumer Tue, 21 Mar 2006 17:08:30 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=1675#comment-5815 Yup, the old "voting with their feet" thing rears it "ugly" (actually beautiful) head again. The adverse selection point is very important. The John Galt I am aware of is a commenter at FreeRepublic who as I recall is very antiunion. Yup, the old “voting with their feet” thing rears it “ugly” (actually beautiful) head again.

The adverse selection point is very important.

The John Galt I am aware of is a commenter at FreeRepublic who as I recall is very antiunion.

]]> By: dave http://www.bizzyblog.com/2006/03/21/the-french-struggle-to-assimilate-their-youth-into-the-workforce-we-dont-why/#comment-5813 dave Tue, 21 Mar 2006 16:45:00 +0000 http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=1675#comment-5813 It's actually worse than that when you think about it. The young kids who actually want to do something have a choice of a. Waiting for a job in a french economy. b. Move to the US, or UK, or somewhere else where they can find a job now. So the French pool of workers will be more and more self selecting toward those who want guaranteed benefits with no effort. Atlas Shrugged anyone? Who is John Galt? It’s actually worse than that when you think about it. The young kids who actually want to do something have a choice of a. Waiting for a job in a french economy. b. Move to the US, or UK, or somewhere else where they can find a job now.

So the French pool of workers will be more and more self selecting toward those who want guaranteed benefits with no effort.

Atlas Shrugged anyone? Who is John Galt?

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