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John Cleese on Stupidity
27 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in behavioural economics, economics of education, economics of information, economics of media and culture, health economics, human capital Tags: Dunning-Kruger effect
What is the return on higher education?
26 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: age-earnings profile
Is Piketty a double secret neoliberal? A charter schools fan even?
25 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, growth miracles, human capital, labour economics, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: Paul Krugman, Thomas Piketty
Where women fare worst and best in the labour market in terms of cash wages
25 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics Tags: compensating differences, gender wage gap, sex discrimination
Occupations that most value long hours, face time at the office and being on call — like business, law and surgery — tend to have the widest pay gaps. That is because those employers pay people who spend longer hours at the office disproportionately more than they pay people who don’t, Dr. Goldin found. A lawyer who works 80 hours a week at a big corporate law firm is paid more than double one who works 40 hours a week as an in-house counsel at a small business.
Jobs in which employees can easily substitute for one another have the slimmest pay gaps, and those workers are paid in proportion to the hours they work.
Pharmacy is Dr. Goldin’s favorite example. A pharmacist who works 40 hours a week generally earns double the salary of a pharmacist who works 20 hours a week, and as a result, the pay gap for pharmacists is one of the smallest.
via artdiamondblog.com.
Richard Posner on libertarian scepticism about law as an engine of women’s liberation
25 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
The power of the asymmetric marriage premium
25 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, gender wage gap
What’s the skinny on wage stagnation?
23 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in human capital, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality Tags: middle-class wage stagnation, top 1%
College graduates have a much higher opinion of themselves than do the recruiting employers
18 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, personnel economics Tags: job market signaling, recruitment standards
Roland Fryer: Racial Inequality in the 21st Century – The Declining Significance of Discrimination
15 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, human capital, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: poverty and inequality, racial discrimination, Roland Fryer
Roland Fryer carried a gun at 14 as a member of the gang; worked extra jobs at college to pay off his father’s bail bondsman; and an assistant professor at Harvard at the age of 27. He is the sharpest economist around working on the economics of inequality and discrimination.
Ideology and child-rearing
15 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in human capital Tags: child rearing, economics of personality traits, partisanship
Is the middle-class disappearing?
12 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economic growth, human capital, income redistribution, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: middle class stagnation
When did global technological leadership migrate across the Atlantic?
10 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in economic growth, human capital, politics - USA, technological progress Tags: global technological frontier, growth of knowledge, innovation, Schumpeter, technology diffusion
HT: theatlantic.com/a-short-history-of-american-invention/385279/ via Mikko Packalen and Jay Bhattacharya
The Evolution Of The Employee
09 Feb 2015 Leave a comment
in health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, market efficiency, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: modern human resource management
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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