Joanna
----- Original Message ----- Doug: "Dean was making some sort of general statement, when he was actually characterizing two professions with a long-standing guild structure."
[WS:] Granted. But there is another question implicit in Baker's piece that needs to be answered:
Why did not the professional occupations other than lawyers and doctors that saw influx of foreign-born employees experience a relative decline in wages as non-professional occupations did?
Historically, changes in socio-demographic composition of skilled occupations (e.g. feminization) typically led to a decline in status and wages in these occupations, but that did not seem to happen in banking, IT, management etc. Why?
-- Wojtek
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