Comments on: The Wedge Between Compensation and Wages http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-wedge-between-compensation-and-wages/ taking the most charitable view of those who disagree Mon, 21 Dec 2020 10:33:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.32 By: Effem http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-wedge-between-compensation-and-wages/#comment-452688 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 13:24:51 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=4022#comment-452688 So does this mean that the Fed could potentially misjudge the labor market by focusing on wages? In theory, growing non-wage compensation could mean the labor market is tighter than they think.

]]> By: Shayne Cook http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/the-wedge-between-compensation-and-wages/#comment-452683 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 12:14:49 +0000 http://www.arnoldkling.com/blog/?p=4022#comment-452683 Arnold:

“I don’t think you can blame company-provided health insurance as a first-order cause. Suppose that there were no company-provided health insurance, and everyone instead bought health insurance on their own.”

You do not think that health insurance/health care Consumers’ behavior would change – to a very large degree – if they were no longer insulated from price information by third-party payers?

You do not believe health insurance providers and health care providers would change their pricing structures if Consumers were directly exposed to pricing information?

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