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.
Gender wage gap myths and realities
06 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA
Gender differences in PISA scores for science across the OECD
06 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics Tags: PISA, reversing gender gap
Source: OECD Family Database – OECD.
Gender commuting gap for workers who travel to and from home to work
04 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, transport economics, urban economics Tags: commuting times, reverse gender gap
I lived in Japan so that 60% extra time the Japanese men spend travelling to and from work in those cramped trains is not to be underrated.
Source: OECD Family Database – OECD.
No asymmetric marriage premium in commuting: the family commuting gap for mothers and fathers travelling to and from work by school age of child in the UK, Germany, France and Italy
04 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, transport economics, urban economics Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, commuting times, gender wage gap, reversing gender gap
Few labour market statistics have any meaning unless broken down by gender. The compensating differentials that explain much of the family pay gap extend strongly to commuting times.
Source: OECD Family Database – OECD, Table LMF2.6.A.
Mothers commute a good 15 to 20 minutes less than fathers in the UK, Italy, Germany and France. Single women commute 5 to 10 minutes further than mothers. Single men and fathers commute much the same distance.
Change in teenage boys’ PISA reading score since 2000 across the OECD area
04 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics Tags: PISA, reversing gender gap
The reverse gender gap in commuting times across the OECD @JulieAnneGenter
31 Jan 2016 2 Comments
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, transport economics, urban economics Tags: commuting times, compensating differentials, gender wage gap, reversing gender gap
Commuting times need to be incorporated into calculations of the gender wage gap because they do represent a serious fixed cost of working that is higher for men than for women.
Source: OECD Family Database.
Not only is the commuting time for female workers less, there is much less variation across the OECD member countries than for men.
The figures for New Zealand are so low that they are suspicious.
Greater maternity leave will increase the gender wage gap
31 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, gender wage gap, high-powered jobs, offsetting behaviour, Parental leave, paternity leave, unintended consequences
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