Differences in raw gender wage gaps may be almost entirely the result of the individual choices made by both male and female workers.
Gender preferences for higher earnings vs. other job attributes
25 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice
@younglabournz @YoungGreensNZ @nleemariu forgot family planning empowers women on @BackBenchesTV
23 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality
Control over the number and spacing of women was central to women’s liberation. Young Labour and the Wild Greens forgot that last night on the BackbencherTV show. Neither could handle the notion that people should wait until they can afford to have children before having them. This is an old working class value with which the Young Labour panel member completely disagreed.
The number of children and the spacing between their births has been a major driver of the gender wage gap for decades. Central to greater female participation in the workforce and society outside the home is smaller families.
Many woman put-off having children to their late 20s and early 30s so they could first consolidate their education and career.
Bryan Caplan argues that there is an undeserving poor if they fail to follow the following reasonable steps to avoid poverty and hardship:
- Work full-time, even if the best job you can get isn’t fun.
- Spend your money on food and shelter before getting cigarettes and cable TV.
- Use contraception if you can’t afford a child
Raising a child takes a lot of effort and a lot of money. One poor person rarely has enough resources to comfortably provide this combination of effort and money.
Young Labour in particular has forgotten the old working class value of being a responsible parent able to afford to raise your children and give them the best things in life.
Being a parent is hard work that requires a bit of discipline if child poverty is to be avoided through ill-considered choices and a lack of family planning.
Young Labour has forgotten the policy of the Labour Party on family planning
Labour believes that all individuals should have control over their own sexual and reproductive lives. An individual’s choice to determine the number and timing of one’s children cannot be compromised.
To ensure that all people can make free and informed choices about their future, Labour supports safe, affordable and universal access to contraception, sexual and reproductive services and information. Labour recognises all women have the right to make their own choices about their own bodies, and should have access to abortion services
New Zealand has a high rate of unplanned pregnancies, estimated at between 40% and 60% of all pregnancies. Labour’s health spokesperson, Annette King agrees that it is a problem and for too long people have avoided dealing with it.
@BillMaher on Constantly Crying ‘Racist’
19 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics, liberalism Tags: political correctness
The British motherhood pay penalty starts at about 29
17 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics
James Heckman on the Economics of Human Development
14 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economics, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality Tags: James Heckman
The asymmetric marriage premium and the motherhood penalty in the UK
09 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour supply, law and economics
Source: Trades Union Congress – The Pregnancy Test: Ending Discrimination at Work for New Mothers (2016).
Too close to the truth for comfort
04 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
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HT: John Ansell
Walter Williams discusses market versus political solutions to the problems of racism and private property
03 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, industrial organisation, labour economics Tags: racial discrimination, Walter Williams
Dissenting opinion in the Fourth Circuit case on transgender students and restrooms
02 Jun 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, liberalism Tags: moral panic, political correctness, sex discrimination, social friction, transgender people
Until a few months ago, there is universal agreement particularly among women that men should not be allowed into female bathrooms and change rooms. There are relatively few transgender people according to New York at times estimates, and few had heard of them until recently to discriminate against them in long-standing bathroom arrangements.
This is not a case of sex discrimination. It is some people being rather unusual and not fitting into arrangements that suit everybody else. These arrangements regarding bathrooms, change rooms and privacy were crafted with absolutely no malice or hostility towards those who find them inconvenient such as transgender people. You just cannot please everybody.
There are certainly hostility and indeed violence against transgender people. That violence is by a minority full of hate looking for someone to hate on any criteria. There are some people are not nice and who take pleasure in being nasty and at times violent towards other people. That is separate from managing the long-standing human preference for bodily privacy.
Opposing discrimination is about telling people to stop being an arsehole. They have preferences about who they deal with that are appalling and mean. The segregation of bathrooms and changing rooms by sex is about a fundamental human desire for bodily privacy.
The Nordic Gender Equality Paradox
30 May 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, gender, labour economics Tags: Finland, gender wage gap, glass ceiling, Norway, Sweden
Bill Allen on the profitability of discrimination against women
26 May 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, entrepreneurship, gender, labour economics Tags: employer discrimination, gender wage gap
Source: Bonus Quotation of the Day… – Cafe Hayek from William Allen, The Midnight Economist.
More on the top 1% giving women a pass on the great wage stagnation
23 May 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of media and culture, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, middle class stagnation, reversing gender gap, wage stagnation
Source: Read Online — Visualizing Economics.
Is it merchandising that drives gender bias in Hollywood casting?
17 May 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of media and culture, gender, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, survivor principle Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, gender gap, gender wage gap, Hollywood economics
Iron Man 3 changed the gender of the film’s villain from female to male after pressure from the production company Marvel, which feared toy merchandise would not sell as well.
This is a rather frank admission of what drives gender bias in Hollywood casting decisions. Its customer preferences – customer discrimination. It was not nasty producers and directors choosing not to hire women.
It was producers and directors casting a movie that might sell at the box office given what the box office wants. The great majority of box office sales is outside of the USA and US cultural values, interests and concepts of humour.
Hollywood is a cutthroat market where producers and directors do do whatever it takes to make their movie sell at the box office. But would not last very long if they indulge their personal preferences at the expense of the box office.
Not every movie has the merchandising potential of action films but they still have to pay careful attention to what audiences want to avoid having produced a run of flops and never get financing again.
That is not made any easier by the first law of Hollywood economics, which is nobody knows nothing. Audiences have a constant demand for novelty but they do not know what they want delay see it.
Many sex differences are small on average but large at the extremes
11 May 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics, gender, health economics Tags: Bell Curce, gender gap
The gender wage gap uses bogus statistics
08 May 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics Tags: gender wage gap
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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