[merrylander]

Originally Posted by whell

For your consideration.http://www.econ.ucla.edu/tvwachter/p...ages_paper.pdf

Of course being unemployed affects re-employmant wages. When you have three people applying for the same job the prospective employer is goind to offer a low salary because he/she knows the applicants are hungry. But that is solely due to greed and not any loss of ability on the part of the applicants.

One thing that I never understood about employers here is the reluctance to offer training. You have aan employee who is a known quantity, give them training and they become more valuable. Bell gave me all the training I coukl absorb and in the process identified my talents as an instructor. As a result when I rose to second level management I developed many good employees for them, so there was payback.