via Was Moynihan Right? What happens to the children of unmarried mothers : Education Next.
Poverty and family structure in America
28 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, single parents
Is the gender wage gap in New Zealand 6% or 9.9%?
26 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
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The OECD puts the gender wage gap in New Zealand at about 6% for full-time employees on an hourly basis when measured using median earnings.
The Ministry of Women’s Affairs puts that gender wage gap estimate at 9.9% by measuring median hourly earnings, but the Ministry includes both full-time and part-time employees.
Conflating full-time and part-time earnings when measuring wage gaps is unwise. The level of compensating differentials in full-time and part-time jobs differ. More of the net pay package of a part-time job would be convenience and flexibility. A full-time job tends to indicate greater commitment to the labour force day in day out and less interest in flexibility and time off during the week.
Women who worked 34 hours or less per week earned 5.6% more than their male counterparts
26 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, part-time work
The gender gap that has no name
26 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, health and safety, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: fatal occupational injuries, gender fatalities gap, workplace injuries
The New Zealand gender wage gap is 6%, not 36% as the Greens claim
25 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand Tags: gender wage gap
The gender wage gap is fading away for women aged 25 to 34
24 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics Tags: gender wage gap
via Chapter 1: Trends from Government Data | Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends Project.
The mummy penalty in the labour market
21 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
Where in the world do men do the most housework?
20 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
Where in the world do men do the most #housework?
statista.com/chart/3258/whe… http://t.co/CkAcSdclWB—
Statista (@StatistaCharts) February 24, 2015
Still further evidence of the reversing gender gap, this time in education
20 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics Tags: gender wage gap, reversing gender gap
How better educated whites are driving political polarization – The Washington Post
20 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, gender, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: abortion, political polarisation
On or about 1990, as a latter-day Virginia Woolf might say, American politics changed. I wouldn’t take the blip of the dotted line at 1990 very seriously–sampling variability and all that–but the general pattern in the graph above is real, and appear in all sorts of other data. In 1988 and before: zero correlations of partisanship with attitudes; since 1992, the correlations have been big and getting larger…
Not only is the abortion/party relationship primarily driven by whites, it is substantially stronger among white elites–that is, people with high income, education, or levels of political information.
via How better educated whites are driving political polarization – The Washington Post.
The reversing gender gap
19 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: gender wage, reversing gender gap, sex discrimination
The Greens are desperately seeking a gender wage gap in New Zealand that just isn’t there
19 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
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The women of Cairo, 1956
19 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, gender Tags: Cairo, Egypt, Islamic societies
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