Reply #13: Complete bullshit

[Hippo_Tron]

Here's the reviews for Krueger's book on Amazon, which indicate the exact opposite of what this person is saying about Krueger's minimum wage work.

http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Measurement-David-Card/dp/06...

And the guy who wrote this clearly didn't understand Krueger's paper on Sweden, nor the difference between normative and positive arguments for that matter.

Krueger's paper merely stated that when you have a social safety net like Sweden's that pays on average 77% of your previous income, people will have less incentive to find a job as quickly than in America where the social safety net pays 30% of your previous income. He notes that while Americans would look at this problem and cut the social safety net, Sweden will not do that. Krueger makes no normative claims about America's social safety net vs Sweden's social safety net, contrary to what the author of this blog post implies.