> Lots of studies cited with no mention of replications or potential caveats.
The one about Brazil got my attention because of the entirely absurd idea¹. Turns out it's a computer model trying to predict how to retrain people when industries change in size.
1 - International commerce liberalism? In Brazil? And unemployment at the same time? The only time Brazil tried the first on recent history, we got a strongly growing middle class and the least amount of unemployment of recent history. (Probably due to completely unrelated factors.)
The one about Brazil got my attention because of the entirely absurd idea¹. Turns out it's a computer model trying to predict how to retrain people when industries change in size.
1 - International commerce liberalism? In Brazil? And unemployment at the same time? The only time Brazil tried the first on recent history, we got a strongly growing middle class and the least amount of unemployment of recent history. (Probably due to completely unrelated factors.)