The UK gender pay gap begins at 30(ish)
09 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, gender wage gap
Single motherhood and the feminisation of poverty
31 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, child poverty, economics and fertility, engines of liberation, family poverty, marriage and divorce, marriage premium, single mothers, single parents
43.1% of single mothers are living in poverty this #MothersDay statusofwomendata.org http://t.co/OgWcmvLnDZ—
IWPR (@IWPResearch) May 10, 2015
Vanishing effect of #religion on the labour market participation of European women
19 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: female labour force participation, female labour supply, France, gender gap, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Turkey
Vanishing effect of #religion on the labor market participation of European women newsroom.iza.org/en/2015/08/10/… http://t.co/25nx8NiEfk—
IZA (@iza_bonn) August 10, 2015
US Teen Pregnancy, Birth and Abortion Rates
16 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, population economics, welfare reform Tags: abortion, economics of fertility, marriage and divorce, single mothers, single parents, teen pregnancy
US Teen Pregnancy, Birth and Abortion Rates since 1972 http://t.co/mwR1U6WJg8—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) August 06, 2015
Gender politics on college campuses
14 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, labour economics Tags: fainting couch feminism, male privilege, meddlesome preferences, micro-aggressions, nanny state, safe spaces, trigger warnings
The man-cession illustrated
13 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in business cycles, discrimination, gender, human capital, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice Tags: female labour force participation, male labour force participation, recessions and recoveries
CHART: The Great Recession Had a Disproportionately Negative Effect on Men That Continues Today @CHSommers @AsheSchow http://t.co/wnfdUOUn0a—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) August 08, 2015
Is there a gender gap in the Dunning-Kruger effect?
10 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, economics of media and culture, gender, human capital, labour economics, personnel economics Tags: cognitive psychology, Dunning-Kruger effect, economics of personality traits, reversing gender gap
Great scientists know what they don't know. 1st step to learning. Female economists winning. blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocial… http://t.co/xcfCvMNU3U—
S Dynarski (@dynarski) July 03, 2015
Any progress ever on the gender wage gap in France, Germany, Sweden and Norway since 1980?
05 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, gender, labour economics, law and economics Tags: France, gender wage gap, Germany, Leftover Left, Norway, Sweden, Twitter left
Our friends on the Left go on about how wonderful place Sweden is despite its gender gap being stuck for 35 years. Not much better in Norway and in Germany and France for that matter.
Figure 1: gender wage, % of median male wage, full-time employees, France, Germany, Sweden and Norway, 1980 – 2012
Source: Earnings and wages – Gender wage gap – OECD Data.
The gender wage gap in figure 1 is unadjusted and defined as the difference between median earnings of men and women relative to median earnings of men. Data refer to full-time employees.
Gender wage gap, USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand since 1970
04 Aug 2015 1 Comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Australia, British economy, gender wage gap
New Zealand does much better than most on the gender wage gap for full-time workers.
Figure 1: gender wage, % of median male wage, full-time employees, USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand, 1970 – 2012
Source: Earnings and wages – Gender wage gap – OECD Data.
The gender wage gap in figure 1 is unadjusted and defined as the difference between median earnings of men and women relative to median earnings of men. Data refer to full-time employees.
I never found it terribly helpful to include part-time workers, such as in an hourly measure of the gender wage gap because of a larger trade-off between cash wages and work life balance in part-time jobs.
Being an airline pilot or engineer is much more dangerous than I thought it was
02 Aug 2015 2 Comments
in discrimination, gender, health and safety, labour economics, occupational choice, transport economics Tags: aviation, gender fatalities gaps, occupational deaths and injuries, reverse gender gap
Dear "lumbersexuals": real loggers are 30x more likely to die on the job than the avg worker priceonomics.com/how-the-lumber… http://t.co/1BLTBI37da—
Zachary Crockett (@zzcrockett) June 12, 2015
New Zealand success in closing the gender wage gap is seriously underreported
31 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, politics - New Zealand Tags: gender wage gap, media bias
Maternity leave compared
30 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender gap, maternal labour supply, maternity leave, paternity leave
Why no ethnic wage gap for New Zealanders aged 15 to 24?
29 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand Tags: employer discrimination, ethnic wage gap, gender wage gap, racial discrimination, racial wage gap
via New Zealand Income Survey 2014 via Human Rights Commission: Tracking Equality at Work
Why next to no gender wage gap for under 45s in New Zealand?
28 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand Tags: gender wage gap
Figure 1: unadjusted median pay per hour by gender and age group, New Zealand, 2014
Source: New Zealand Income Survey 2014 via Human Rights Commission: Tracking Equality at Work.


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