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A brief argument (that may need more work) for opening the discussions on BigLaw payscales for first-year associates
There has been much “net-noise” about the recent publishing of a study on first year associate pay being bi-modal, meaning that instead of having a nice bell-curve shape, as one would expect, the pay distribution for first-year associates has two distinct points, with a deep, steep valley in between. (See: A Picture is worth 1,000 […]
Modeling Union Density
One of the interesting trends in economic history over the last 40 years or so consists in the rise and fall of the union. For example, in America we have seen the percentage of the population that belongs to a union fall from 25% to around 10% between 1970 and today, while the percentage was […]
So you say you want universal health care? A comparison with the judicial system
[This is a July 12th post from my personal blog-site’s archive: http://getintuit.blogspot.com/2007/07/so-you-say-you-want-universal-health.html]I attended a pretty interesting discussion yesterday about the state of health care in the US and how the private markets might/should fit into the solution. It got me thinking: why do people seem to be demanding “universal/free health care? More importantly, why has […]
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