Time for an equal pay day for young urban males?
24 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, urban economics Tags: College premium, gender way, graduate premium, reversing gender gap, urban wage premium
Unconscious mind studies should not have survived peer-review
21 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, labour economics Tags: co-worker discrimination, customer discrimination, employer discrimination, moral psychology, political psychology, social psychology
Why do we men, bastards all, have a stronger unconscious bias against well-paid women?
09 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA Tags: employer discrimination, gender wage gap, unconscious bias
Source: OECD employment database.
No progress at the top in 20 years or compensating differences not measured in data on cash wages?
08 Mar 2017 2 Comments
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - New Zealand Tags: compensating differences, gender wage gap, glass ceiling, work life balance
The nuances of the gender pay gap
07 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics, gender, human capital, labour economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics
Supervisory and monitoring costs and occupational segregation by sex
06 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
Published: Goldin, Claudia. “Monitoring Costs and Occupational Segregation by Sex: An Historical Analysis,” Journal of Labor Economics, Vol. 4, (January 1986), pp. 1-27.
Gender wage gap places NZ 4th
06 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics Tags: gender wage gap
This dress would have been OK with @NZGreens if it was a burqa
28 Feb 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of religion, gender, liberalism, politics - New Zealand
As Catherine Delahunty MP said after visiting a fundamentalist religious community in New Zealand:
I looked at the gorgeous, yet regimented girls in their identical clothing and wondered how a physicist, an international lawyer or a plumber might blossom if the only role models she was exposed to were those in her own community. We agreed to disagree, because you can’t argue with religious certainty and a literal interpretation of a religious text. This community feels they are under attack by people like me and throughout the day the women and men I met did their best to share their vision of a safe, structured and practical world led entirely by men who consult with women.
#Italy is a feminist paradise if its #genderwagegap is not #fakenews; Romania is in touch with its feminist side too
24 Feb 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, econometerics, gender, labour economics, politics - New Zealand
Why Aren’t There Many Female Commercial Pilots?
24 Feb 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, transport economics Tags: gender wage gap
Note for Swedish feminists, Michelle Obama, Condoleezza Rice refused to wear a headscarf in Saudi Arabia
22 Feb 2017 Leave a comment
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Dead Wrong™ with Johan Norberg – Nordic Gender Equality
20 Feb 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, entrepreneurship, gender, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: gender wage gap
Occupational segregation a weak reed to hang #genderwagegap @FairnessNZ
17 Feb 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, occupational segregation
NZ has a gender wage gap of 6% according to the OECD and 12% according to the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, with 30% of that explained by occupational segregation. That is 2 to 4 percentage points.
You have to explain occupational segregation. Men are represented more in occupations that are riskier. They are paid more for that. There are systematic differences in the occupational choices of married parents, single parents and single mothers regarding the risks of injury. Again, that feeds into wages.
Occupational segregation explains 2 to 4 percentage points of wages. Given that risk premiums – danger money – and trading lower wages for greater flexibility in a job can easily reduce wages or increase them by 2-4%, occupational segregation is simply a proxy for measurement error.
Still more of wage premiums has to be poured into this 2-4% of wages such as occupational segregation in unsocial work hours. Many more women than men work 9 to 5 during the week. Men would then have a wage premium for working nights and weekends. A hell a lot has to be explained away by just 2 to 4% wages.
What does undervalued work mean? Does it mean it is very profitable to employ women in certain occupations such as caring. That implies that high profits will lead new firms to enter these industries bidding up wages and equalising them with other competing jobs.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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