Implicit tax on a lone parent returning to a low-paid job in the USA, UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
28 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, fiscal policy, labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, public economics, welfare reform Tags: poverty traps, single mothers, single parents, social insurance, taxation and labour supply, welfare state
Ratio of unemployment and single parents benefit to the New Zealand net average wage since 1970
27 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, politics - New Zealand, welfare reform Tags: domestic purposes benefit, single mothers, single parents, social insurance, unemployment benefit, welfare state
Source: OECD Economic Survey New Zealand 2015.
Implicit tax on returning to work for a 2nd earner in ordinary US, Danish, British, New Zealand, Australian, Canadian, German and French families
26 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply
Not a lot of point for a 2nd earner in an ordinary family going back to work in the English-speaking countries once you consider the childcare fees for a 2-year-old and a 3-year-old. These calculations were released today in Paris in the OECD’s Going for Growth 2016.
Source: Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth – OECD (2016).
Average #retirement ages across the OECD area
24 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in fiscal policy, labour economics, labour supply Tags: ageing society, demographic crisis, old-age pension, retirement ages
When the robots came to the farms
24 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, population economics, technological progress Tags: creative destruction, robots
British full-time gender wage gap by age band
23 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: British economy, full-time work, gender wage gap, part-time work
@BernieSanders has the type of friends that make you prefer your enemies
22 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, fiscal policy, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, ageing society, cranks, demographic crisis, older workers, quackery, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
The economist costing the economic plan of a 74-year-old candidate forgot there is an ageing society in his labour force participation rate projections.
Source: Gerald Frieldman (2016).
Hours worked per year across the OECD, 2014
21 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply Tags: hours worked
Expected years in retirement by gender in the G7 countries, Australia and New Zealand
19 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: ageing society, demographic crisis, old age pensions, older workers
Source: OECD Pensions at a Glance 2015.
Field of study by gender across the OECD
19 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of education, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: education premium, reversing gender gap
Effective labour market exit age by gender in the G7 countries, Australia and New Zealand
19 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics Tags: ageing society, gender gap, old age pensions, older workers, social insurance, welfare state
Source: OECD Pensions at a Glance 2015.
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Food Stamp Work Requirement Cuts Non-parent Caseload by 75% @GreenCatherine
16 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, labour supply, politics - USA, welfare reform
In common with New Zealand, Maine found that a number could not complete work requirements because they could not get time off work from their off the books job.
Lindsay Mitchell found through Official Information Act requests that one in 10 beneficiaries are working full-time and one in 5 have no intention of looking for a job in the next year despite a requirement to actively look for work as a condition of receipt of their benefit.
Which countries are the biggest exporters of their own citizens
13 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in human capital, labour economics, labour supply, population economics
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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