{"id":305,"date":"2012-07-30T07:28:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T14:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomaspalley.com\/?p=305"},"modified":"2019-01-06T08:15:49","modified_gmt":"2019-01-06T15:15:49","slug":"elr-comes-to-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/?p=305","title":{"rendered":"ELR Comes to the UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ELR Comes to the UK<\/p>\n<p>The following story, which appeared in <em>The Guardian<\/em> on Sunday 29 July, was forwarded to me by Malcolm Sawyer:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/society\/2012\/jul\/29\/long-term-unemployed-unpaid-work\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">\u201cMillion jobless may face six months\u2019 unpaid work or have unemployment benefits stopped\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a sense, the UK, under Conservative Prime Minister Cameron, is looking to adopt a quasi-employer of last resort (ELR) scheme in which the ELR wage is set equal to existing unemployment benefits (Note: the Conservative scheme involves compulsory labor for benefits). <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cameron\u2019s move confirms other reservations I have long had about the ELR proposal and the possibility it could also be used to undermine public sector unions and public sector wages by substituting ELR workers as replacements. In addition, there are other technical financing and macroeconomic issues. That is why I have raised questions about it and held back from endorsing it.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economonitor.com\/lrwray\/2012\/07\/26\/on-the-supposed-weaknesses-of-mmt-response-to-palley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">proponents of MMT\/ELR<\/a> have attacked me personally for this. I think it\u2019s time for them to take a chill pill.<\/p>\n<p>Before we jump to endorsing theories and policies, we should be confident the theories are fully worked out and the policies will not have negative consequences that outweigh putative benefits.<\/p>\n<p>CORRECTED: 7\/30\/12<\/p>\n<p>by Thomas I. Palley<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELR Comes to the UK The following story, which appeared in The Guardian on Sunday 29 July, was forwarded to me by Malcolm Sawyer: \u201cMillion jobless may face six months\u2019 unpaid work or have unemployment benefits stopped\u201d In a sense, the UK, under Conservative Prime Minister Cameron, is looking to adopt a quasi-employer of last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-political-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1583,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions\/1583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thomaspalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}