The Most Depressing Blogpost in a Long Time

Brad Plummer shows us two charts from a new publication from the International Labor Organization (ILO) that purport to tell us we face a tradeoff between job quality and jobs. The charts, one for wealthy countries and one for developing countries, seem to show that countries that had a deterioration in job quality saw the most job growth.

 

That would be bad news. The intended take away is that if we want to have jobs then workers will have to take lower pay and fewer benefits. However...