Gender Pay equality debate gets heated
31 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
Ideas and Growth Lecture with Nobel Laureate Robert E. Lucas Jr
31 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, macroeconomics, occupational choice, Robert E. Lucas
The College Scam
30 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, personnel economics Tags: signalling
Why does @women_nz @JulieAnneGenter treat men’s occupational choices as superior? Women choose more interactive occupations because of their vastly superior reading and verbal skills
28 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand Tags: gender wage gap
Labor Ethics | Political Philosophy with Jason Brennan
24 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
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Steven Pinker Defends James Damore Against Dishonest Slanderer
23 Oct 2018 1 Comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: employment law, gender wage gap
Submission to Select Committee on Equal Pay Amendment Bill
21 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand
This submission is made up of 6 attachments because that is the maximum I could load.
Attachments 1 and 2 are the main part of submission and argue that pay equity is unfair to fair employers. An employer can hire and promote on merit, pay the going wage and still be successfully sued. Their name blackened forever. As a question of social justice, it is wrong to sue someone as a discriminating employer, when there is nothing they could do to right the supposedly wrong they were successfully sued. Barnardo’s can no longer compete with social workers because of the pay equity settlement in the public sector. It relies on donations and tendering for public contracts. It has no capacity to raise wages but could be successfully sued and driven out of business.
Attachments 3 to 5 explains that the gender pay gap is the result of the work-life balance choices of women interacting with some professions penalising an inability to work specific hours or long hours much more than. Pay equity will address none of these issues.
Attachment 6 explains how more than 40 years ago Solomon Polachek found that the gender pay gap was driven by factors such as the number and spacing of children. Employers cannot discriminate against women because they do not know this information and it is now unlawful to ask. It is a strange misogyny that employers hire single women on merit but have a bias against mothers who have several children whose birthdates on widely spaced apart.
To conclude this overview, as attachment 3 shows in a graphic, the gender pay gap for women at the bottom and middle of the labour market is barely 3-5%. It is rather odd to be offering 30% pay rises for a group of women whose pay gap with men at the bottom and middle of the labour market is not more than 5%. Clearly the comparable worth methodology misses something.
Jason Brennan on why capitalism is a better utopia than socialism
12 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, Austrian economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, entrepreneurship, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, unions Tags: economics of socialism, The Great Enrichment
Women’s liberation is doing as you are told by society in your career choices
10 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
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Claudia Goldin (2018) on the last chapter in the Quest for Career and Family @NZPSA @women_nz
08 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
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@NZPSA should have killed my op-ed with silence. Now have another chance to go at them again.
04 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
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Bryan Caplan on The Case Against Education
01 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
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Charles Murray on Coming Apart
29 Sep 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, economics of media and culture, gender, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: Charles Murray
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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