sábado, 20 de fevereiro de 2010

Economistas pelo emprego e por salários decentes

Querido Blog, já viste frente a ti muitos "posts" interessantes com uma enorme ressonância com os tópicos de globalização e competitividade. Vê agora também este Abaixo-Assinado. Participam muitos dos nossos "habitués" e "compagnons de route" (Stiglitz, Eichengreen, etc.). Um deles, o autor do blog de onde é extraída esta informação, é Brad de Long, macroeconomista e historiador económico em Berkeley (foto abaixo).


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A great number of different policy actions--including the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the financial rescue, and the extraordinary monetary policy measures taken by the Federal Reserve--have in their sum played an important role in changing the trajectory of the economy from one of terrible decline to one of growth. But with the latest unemployment rate at 9.7 percent, it is clear that additional emergency policy measures to jump-start job creation are still warranted.

A well-designed temporary and incremental hiring tax credit is a cost-effective way to create jobs, and could work well in the current environment. At a time when GDP is beginning to rise and demand is starting to return, private firms are likely to respond to such a tax incentive by hiring sooner and more aggressively than they otherwise would have done. Such a credit could thus help put Americans back to work more quickly than otherwise. And by targeting firms that are growing, such a tax credit supports the businesses most likely to lead the recovery of employment.

There are many ways to design an effective hiring tax credit, but in general the beneficial effects will be greater the stronger the hiring incentives and the lower the administrative burdens placed on firms. It is critical that such a tax credit be put into place quickly and that it is publicized widely. Firms will begin to accelerate hiring only when know they can count on such tax relief.

We judge that a well-designed hiring tax credit is a well-targeted and economically sound strategy for aiding job creation at this phase of the recovery, and so we support a well-designed hiring tax credit.

In our personal capacities, we are sincerely yours,


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