Data extracted on 11 Mar 2016 14:08 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
The gender pay gap for high school leavers and graduates aged 35-44 in the US, UK, Canada, Denmark, Sweden, Australia and New Zealand
10 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: compensating differentials, education premium, female labour force participation, gender wage gap, graduate premium, maternal labour force participation
The USA, the gender pay gap gets worse if you go to college. By contrast, in Sweden and especially Canada the gender pay gap is much less for graduates than for those with a high school education.
Data extracted on 09 Mar 2016 22:28 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
In most countries in the chart above, going on to university and graduating does not reduce the gender pay gap by the time you reach your late 30s and early 40s. Best explanation for that is that part of the graduate wage premium is traded for work-life balance.
Effective marginal tax rates on single and dual earner families in the USA, Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, Australia and New Zealand
05 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, fiscal policy, gender, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, public economics Tags: Australia, British economy, Canada, Denmark, effective marginal tax rates, family tax benefits, family tax credits, France, Germany, in-work tax credits, Italy, poverty traps, rational irrationality, social insurance, Sweden, taxation and labour supply
Some countries including New Zealand and Australia do not give ordinary families much of an incentive to earn more. Effective marginal tax rates on low income families is one of the few times that the Left discovers supply-side economics.
Source: Taxing Wages 2015 – OECD 2015.
Mandatory Maternity Leave is a Bad Idea @suemoroney
05 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics, gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA Tags: maternity leave
Men are 12X more likely than women to die from their jobs
28 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, health and safety, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: workplace fatalities
Implicit tax on returning to work for a 2nd earner in ordinary US, Danish, British, New Zealand, Australian, Canadian, German and French families
26 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply
Not a lot of point for a 2nd earner in an ordinary family going back to work in the English-speaking countries once you consider the childcare fees for a 2-year-old and a 3-year-old. These calculations were released today in Paris in the OECD’s Going for Growth 2016.
Source: Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth – OECD (2016).
British full-time gender wage gap by age band
23 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: British economy, full-time work, gender wage gap, part-time work
More trigger warnings for fainting couch feminists
13 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply Tags: gender wage gap
Sex differences in the minimum acceptable romantic partner
11 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics
Richard McKenzie wrote a couple of papers over the last 10 years pointing out that the connection between the labour market and the marriage market will entrench the gender wage gap.
Across all cultures, good financial prospects influence female choices of a partner. Because income influences the prospects of men more than it does women in the dating and marriage market in all cultures, men have an extra incentive to work hard and an additional reward to that of women when they invest in human capital, riskier jobs and longer hours.
Seinfeld had a simpler explanation of this: men are shallow, it goes with the territory.
The only way that men will stop investing in better economic prospects as a way of winning better girlfriends and wives, is for women to lower their standards.
The response of less educated women to more and more of the better educated men and women pairing off together was to stop marrying what was left in the dating pool and have children on their own rather than drop their standards.
Bridging the Gender Gap: The Problems with Parental Leave
11 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, maternity leave, Parental leave
Screen actor demographics
07 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics Tags: customer discrimination, employer discrimination, Hollywood economics, racial discrimination, sex discrimination
Is @HillaryClinton a Reformer or Hypocrite?
07 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Left-wing hypocrisy, sexual harassment
Female labour force participation rate, workers aged 65 to 69, US, UK, Australia and New Zealand since 1960
06 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - New Zealand, public economics Tags: ageing society, labour demographics, old age pensions, older workers, social insurance
The phased increase in the eligibility age for the New Zealand old pension from 60 to 65 from the mid-1990s obviously carried through to the labour force participation of women over 65 as well.
Data extracted on 05 Feb 2016 05:13 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
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