JoachimSchipper comments on Unemployment explanations - Less Wrong

28 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 07 November 2014 05:12PM

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Comment author: JoachimSchipper 08 November 2014 02:14:26PM 9 points [-]

And, of course, encouraging homeownership makes this worse. Good thing that most of the Western world hasn't made that an explicit policy goal for the past decade...

Comment author: CellBioGuy 08 November 2014 04:08:23PM 0 points [-]

Try three.

Comment author: ESRogs 08 November 2014 04:27:18PM 3 points [-]

Is this a reference to this saying?

Comment author: Strange7 28 November 2014 12:45:50AM 1 point [-]

Homeownership makes employees less willing to relocate, but also more tolerant of short-term decreases in the demand for their skills, since they can postpone maintenance on a house (or perform it inefficiently themselves with the surplus time) more safely than they can miss rent payments to a landlord.