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Re:Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat... by harryh on Sunday November 20, 2016 @06:52PM (#13002011)
It's the largest economic research organization in the US and the #1 clearinghouse for academic work in economics.

Furthermore, just because the paper is on NBER, it doesn't mean the organization did the research. It's just the organization that hosts the paper. If you click through, you can see that the work was done by faculty at Stanford and The University of Michigan.

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Re:Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat... by matchagaucho on Monday November 21, 2016 @09:45AM (#13005728)
And their "research" is used by right-wing conservatives to justify fracking, and other environmentally damaging agendas.

http://www.nofrackingway.us/2012/11/01/shale-boom-nber-conse...

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Re:Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat... by harryh on Monday November 21, 2016 @11:03AM (#13006404)
The paper I linked to wasn't done by NBER. They just host a database of research done by basically all academic economists. Your ad hominem attack isn't even aimed at the right people.
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Re:Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat... by matchagaucho on Monday November 21, 2016 @01:30PM (#13007791)
Like I said... follow the money. I choose to filter this out as false authority, not ad-hominem.
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Re:Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat... by harryh on Monday November 21, 2016 @01:53PM (#13008018)
Everyone chooses which science they want to deny so they don't have to confront inaccuracies in their world view. I guess this is yours.
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Re:Wal-Mart Tells Workers: Don’t Download Labor Group’s Chat... by matchagaucho on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @02:30PM (#13025106)
There's no science required here. Walmart is a minimum wage body shop. Plain and simple. So at best, their presence in a community only displaces other minimum wage jobs, or creates more minimum wage jobs.

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/06/03/walmart-can-afford-15-minimum...

The paper cited is a typical right-wing conservative position that corporate ladders with management positions provide workers with more opportunities for advancement, and thus possibly higher wages.

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