FACTS #EqualPayDay http://t.co/KoWZeiIShQ—
Meninist (@MeninistTweet) April 14, 2015
The raw gender wage gap conceals more than it reveals
15 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, reversing gender gap
Why aren’t the trends in this chart celebrated on Equal Pay Day?
15 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
Some #EqualPayDay statistics: gender wage gap is narrowest for the young, gets wider with age blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015… http://t.co/rpiWdfOyp2—
Josh Zumbrun (@JoshZumbrun) April 14, 2015
What does the raw gender wage gap mean if it is not this?
15 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: Equal Pay Day, gender wage gap
Tomorrow is feminists' make-believe, bogus Equal Pay Day. Look for statistical fraud, best illustrated by this coupon http://t.co/agg2o8n8yU—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) April 13, 2015
New Zealand spends a lot in education for a pretty average education premium in return
15 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics Tags: College premium, education premium, graduate premium
#Education makes up 12.9% of public #spending in OECD area; how does your country compare? bit.ly/1ang3Rj http://t.co/cUgf7fnj8F—
(@OECD) April 13, 2015
@OECD More college grads nationally= a smaller wage premium for young workers bit.ly/1rJ8bz9 #highereducation http://t.co/IWjetA6znw—
Dr. Eugene Kowch (@ekowch) September 17, 2014
Finishing year 10 of high school was a very much a mid-20th century phenomenon
09 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, politics - USA Tags: educational attainment
Difference in PISA scores of 15-year-old female and male students on reading literacy: 2012
06 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: reversing gender gap
via nces.ed.gov
I am pretty sure I am not a super-taster given my narrow food preferences
05 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in human capital, occupational choice Tags: economics of personality traits, economics of physiology
Claudia Goldin on Gender Equality in the Labor Market
02 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: Claudia Goldin, gender wage gap, wage gaps
The rising educational attainment of the poor
01 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: educational attainment
@mattyglesias poverty trends a good example of why americanprogress.org/issues/poverty… http://t.co/tgn7RzBKzw—
Shawn Fremstad (@inclusionist) March 28, 2015
A tale of two parents
30 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family demographics, family structures, single parents
Whitlam’s curse – How higher education drives inequality among the bottom 99%
30 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - USA Tags: David Autor, education premium, Gough Whitlam, top 1%
Gough Whitlam abolished tuition fees at Australian universities in 1972. The idea was to reduce inequality. He entrenched it instead, and gave a flying start to those of already above-average talents.
David Autor in a recent paper has illustrated how the gap between the highly educated and the less educated is growing at a far faster rate than the gap between the top 1% in the bottom 99% in the USA. David Autor argues that
a single minded focus on the top 1% can be counterproductive given that the changes to the other 99% have been more economically significant.
- since the early 1980s, the earnings gap between workers with a high school degree and those with a college education has become four times greater than the shift in income during the same period to the very top from the 99%.
- Between 1979 and 2012, the gap in median annual earnings between households of high-school educated workers and households with college-educated ones expanded from $30,298 to $58,249, or by roughly $28,000.
- If the incomes of the bottom 99% are grown at the same pace as the top 1% their incomes would have increased by $7000 per household.
Autor argues that the growth of skill differentials among the other 99% is more consequential than the rise of the 1% for the welfare of most citizens.
via How Education Drives Inequality Among the 99% – Real Time Economics – WSJ.
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