Bryan Caplan: “The Case Against Education”
17 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: signalling
No wage premium for bilingualism. Lack of fluency in dominant language carries a wage penalty for migrants and indigenous peoples.
17 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality Tags: economics of languages

Friedman Fundamentals: What We Learned About 70% Tax Rates 50 Years Ago
16 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, fiscal policy, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics Tags: taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply
Policy Briefs: Edward Lazear On How To Reduce Income Inequality
12 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of education, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, occupational regulation, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty
Why do Chinese British women earn more than white British men? White privilege?
10 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: racial discrimination

Why the positive discrimination in favour of Indian and Chinese British?
10 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: racial discrimination

Structural & police racism in neighbouring ethnic enclaves in NYC @sst_nz @NZHumanRights. (Racists can’t tell 2nd gen. West Indians apart from other blacks when discriminating and oppressing)
05 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, econometerics, economics of crime, economics of education, human capital, law and economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: racial discrimination

Richard Epstein |2003 Reflects on Anti-Discrimination Laws Since His Book Forbidden Grounds
01 Jul 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, economic history, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Richard Epstein Tags: antidiscrimination laws, employment law, offsetting behaviour, racial discrimination, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
More evidence of a working rich
29 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of education, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: top 1%

Thomas Sowell on the Myths of Economic Inequality
26 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of regulation, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, survivor principle, Thomas Sowell, unemployment, unions, welfare reform
Inequality, Productivity Stagnation and Moore’s Law | Tyler Cowen
21 Jun 2019 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, economics of information, economics of regulation, financial economics, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: superstar wages, top 1%



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