Audience at to please make that last little check of your cell phone. Make sure that they will not interrupt the preceding today. We will get started right now. The event today is really designed to celebrate the publication of a new heritage special report on Big Government policies that hurt before and how to address them. Is a very states compassionate country and we have an awful lot of government activities that affect poorer members of our population in one way or another. We have welfares programs shall welfare spending that adds up to well over a trillion dollars these days and i can be in things like health care, direct income support at one time or another. We are not here to talk about those policies today. We want to talk about another set of the Government Policies, those of that are put in place for what seemed to be on the surface very wellmeaning purposes and in fact they made the necessary policies of one kind or another for government they may be necessary policies of
And people who are teenagers or young are going into the workforce, you could imagine that there are limited numbers of entrylevel jobs, and so theres some of that happening. Is that fair . Well, i wouldnt say that its a limited number. Okay. But theyre in competition, and that might affect the wages, and that, in turn, might affect how many hours the teenagers want to work. One last topic before we turn to the audience. So, weve talked about effects among highly skilled workers in the entrepreneurial economy and low skilled workers. How do we understand the effects in the middle . The report talks i mean, because of the hourglass shape of the immigration flows, theyre not as direct, but there are certainly some effects. Jenny . So, i dont think that we have really good purely empirical studies looking at this. We have studies that are somewhat of a blend of theory and data looking at this, but those studies say that precisely because there are not many immigrants coming in with middle
And people who are teenagers or young are going into the workforce, you could imagine that there are limited numbers of entrylevel jobs, and so theres some of that happening. Is that fair . Well, i wouldnt say that its a limited number. Okay. But theyre in competition, and that might affect the wages, and that, in turn, might affect how many hours the teenagers want to work. One last topic before we turn to the audience. So, weve talked about effects among highly skilled workers in the entrepreneurial economy and low skilled workers. How do we understand the effects in the middle . The report talks i mean, because of the hourglass shape of the immigration flows, theyre not as direct, but there are certainly some effects. Jenny . So, i dont think that we have really good purely empirical studies looking at this. We have studies that are somewhat of a blend of theory and data looking at this, but those studies say that precisely because there are not many immigrants coming in with middle
And people who are teenagers or young are going into the workforce, you could imagine that there are limited numbers of entrylevel jobs, and so theres some of that happening. Is that fair . Well, i wouldnt say that its a limited number. Okay. But theyre in competition, and that might affect the wages, and that, in turn, might affect how many hours the teenagers want to work. One last topic before we turn to the audience. So, weve talked about effects among highly skilled workers in the entrepreneurial economy and low skilled workers. How do we understand the effects in the middle . The report talks i mean, because of the hourglass shape of the immigration flows, theyre not as direct, but there are certainly some effects. Jenny . So, i dont think that we have really good purely empirical studies looking at this. We have studies that are somewhat of a blend of theory and data looking at this, but those studies say that precisely because there are not many immigrants coming in with middle
And people who are teenagers or young are going into the workforce, you could imagine that there are limited numbers of entrylevel jobs, and so theres some of that happening. Is that fair . Well, i wouldnt say that its a limited number. Okay. But theyre in competition, and that might affect the wages, and that, in turn, might affect how many hours the teenagers want to work. One last topic before we turn to the audience. So, weve talked about effects among highly skilled workers in the entrepreneurial economy and low skilled workers. How do we understand the effects in the middle . The report talks i mean, because of the hourglass shape of the immigration flows, theyre not as direct, but there are certainly some effects. Jenny . So, i dont think that we have really good purely empirical studies looking at this. We have studies that are somewhat of a blend of theory and data looking at this, but those studies say that precisely because there are not many immigrants coming in with middle