Re: Re: Re: 'Anti-globalization activists havetheir facts wrong.' Really?

[Doug Henwood]

Paul Phillips wrote:

>On 15 Jan 01, at 9:46, Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>>
>>  Could you offer some empirical evidence for this? Of the first world
>>  countries, the U.S. was the only one to see a sustained decline in
>>  real wages, a trend that reversed after 1995, though "globalization"
>>  hasn't been reversed, nor has capital become any less mobile.
>
>Not so Doug.  Canada has also had a sustained decline in real
>wages for almost two decades up until the last couple of years.

Really? Here's what I get from International Financial Statistics 
(dividing the index for the nominal manufacturing wage by the CPI):

1970s   +2.3%
1980s   +0.2%
1990s   +0.3%

Compare the U.S. (again manufacturing, from BLS stats):

1970s   +0.6%
1980s   -0.9%
1990s   -0.1%

You have different info?

Doug