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> paper that you're citing is from 2022

It’s looking at 2015 to 2019 data. I’m comparing that period to the post-2021 one.

> is 2 in real dollars?

No, nominal. They’re up in real terms, but I don’t have non-proprietary data for that.




I'll just say that my on-the-ground experience (limited such as it is to the markets/trades that my friends and family work in) doesn't express that construction is all of a sudden a good job. I could perhaps be convinced that it has upgraded from a shit job to merely a crap one, perhaps because so many people have escaped it that they have to at least pay slightly better these days. If I had any kids, I'd still be inclined give them the same advice that my blue-collar parents gave me - go to school to do just about anything else.


To be clear, I’m not saying it’s a good job. (Or a bad one.) I’m saying it’s better than it was before.




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