There's a clear increase in single-parent households for parents who haven’t gone to college: on.wsj.com/1B1Xeuq http://t.co/eW2fH8bX5O—
Real Time Economics (@WSJecon) May 17, 2015
Education and single motherhood
18 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, welfare reform Tags: single mothers
The reverse gender tertiary education gap for ages 25–34, Anglo-Saxon countries
14 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Australia, British economy, Canada, College premium, education premium, gender wage gap, Ireland
Figure 1: % population who have attained at least tertiary education, age 25 – 34 by gender (2012)
Source: OECD family database.
Figure 2 shows that the stark reversing of the gender gap in educational attainment shown in figure 1 was somewhat more recent in the US, UK and to a lesser extent in Ireland and Australia. In the UK and USA, educational attainment by gender was pretty equal for the earlier generation of graduates as compared to today’s 25 to 34-year-olds. The reversing of the gender gap in educational attainment dates back several decades in Canada and New Zealand.
Figure 2: % population who have attained at least tertiary education, age 45 – 54 by gender (2012)
Source: OECD family database.
Gender wage gaps for tertiary educated and high school educated full-time workers in Anglo-Saxon countries
13 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
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In another blow for the inherent inequality of bargaining power between workers and employers, and for the patriarchy, the wage gap is larger for tertiary educated female full-time workers aged 35-44 than it is for female full-time workers who just finished high school.
Figure 1: gender wage gap for mean full-time, full-year earnings for tertiary educated workers aged 35 – 44, 2012
Source: OECD family database.
To add insult to injury, the gender wage gap further tertiary educated female workers is quite large in the USA but quite small for high school graduates.
Figure 2: gender wage gap for mean full-time, full-year earnings for below upper secondary educated workers aged 35 – 44, 2012
Source: OECD family database.
Canada seems to be a bit of a patriarchal hellhole while New Zealand does pretty well in gender wage gaps.
The gender gap in figure 1 and in figure 2 are unadjusted and calculated as the difference between mean average annual full-time, full-year earnings of men and of women as a percentage of men’s earnings.
What are the Anglo-Saxon gender wage gaps for the bottom, median and top deciles?
12 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Australia, British economy, Canada, gender wage gap, Ireland
If there is an inherent inequality of bargaining power between workers and employers, as we are so frequently lectured by those in the self appointed know, why is the gender wage gap so small at the bottom of the earnings distribution?
Figure 1: % Gender gap in full-time earnings at the bottom decile of earnings distribution, 2012
Source: OECD family database
Figure 2: % Gender gap in full-time earnings at the median decile of earnings distribution, 2012
Source: OECD family database
Figure 3: % Gender gap in full-time earnings at the top decile of earnings distribution, 2012
Source: OECD family database
The gender gaps are unadjusted, and are calculated as the difference between the earnings of men and women for their respective earnings percentile.
How the average day of American mums and dads has changed since 1965
12 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: economics of the family, home production, household division of labour, marriage and divorce
#Dailychart: How the average day of American mums and dads has changed since 1965 econ.st/1Hi43yt http://t.co/tY5DSpdVKN—
The Economist (@EconBizFin) June 08, 2015
What are the Anglo-Saxon gender wage gaps?
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Australia, British economy, Canada, gender wage gap, Ireland
Figure 1: % gender gap in median earnings of full-time employees, 2012
Source: OECD family database
Richard Branson has announced a great paid leave policy for .2 percent of his workers
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, entrepreneurship, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, maternity leave, paternity leave, Richard Branson
Trends in what drives single motherhood
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
Divorce used to be biggest engine of single parenthood in America. No more. It's nonmarital childbearing cc@davidfrum http://t.co/J5yZtUukNW—
W Bradford Wilcox (@WilcoxNMP) June 10, 2015
The reversing gender gap in one chart
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, lost boys, reversing gender gap
Gender gap in bachelor's is 6 percentage points. Men now where women were a decade ago.
nces.ed.gov/programs/diges… http://t.co/u9rAsIcfY0—
S Dynarski (@dynarski) June 01, 2015
Parental time usage, 1965 and now
09 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: family demographics, household division of labour
Almost 8 in 10 daughters raised by the lowest- earning men make more money per hour than their fathers did
08 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: economic mobility, gender wage gap, reversing gender gap
Today’s daughters earn much more than their mothers
07 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: compensating differences, gender wage gap
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, slightly more than half of all mothers were in the labour force. These women worked, on average, 24 hours per week for a little more than $10 per hour.
Today, 85 percent of all daughters are employed, and they work 10 additional hours per week and earn $9 more per hour.
via Women’s Work: The Economic Mobility of Women Across a Generation.
The gender pay gap and motherhood
06 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, gender pay gap, motherhood penalty
Why did the top 1% only pick on men when they increased inequality over recent decades?
06 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, unions Tags: gender wage gap, middle class stagnation, reversing gender gap, superstar wages, superstars, top 1%, wage stagnation
Gender pay gap in corporate America twitter.com/BuzzFeedAndrew… http://t.co/AOFxcUQ8Rk—
Charts and Maps (@ChartsandMaps) April 12, 2015
Who gained most from the 1996 US welfare reform?
03 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in gender, labour economics, labour supply, welfare reforms Tags: U.S welfare reforms
The share of poorly educated single mothers with earnings rose from 49 percent in 1995 to 64 percent in 2000. This group was thought to be the least employable.
Employment gains of welfare reform’s early years have disappeared: bit.ly/19HTGBh http://t.co/4IRuqi6x7X—
Center on Budget (@CenterOnBudget) June 28, 2013
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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