What are the Anglo-Saxon gender wage gaps for the bottom, median and top deciles?

If there is an inherent inequality of bargaining power between workers and employers, as we are so frequently lectured by those in the self appointed know, why is the gender wage gap so small at the bottom of the earnings distribution?

Figure 1: % Gender gap in full-time earnings at the bottom decile of earnings distribution, 2012

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Source: OECD family database

Figure 2: % Gender gap in full-time earnings at the median decile of earnings distribution, 2012

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Source: OECD family database

Figure 3: % Gender gap in full-time earnings at the top decile of earnings distribution, 2012

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Source: OECD family database

The gender gaps are unadjusted, and are calculated as the difference between the earnings of men and women for their respective earnings percentile.

How the average day of American mums and dads has changed since 1965

Prison incarceration rates by race and education

Male African American high school dropouts facing a nearly 70% cumulative risk of imprisonment by their early 30s. However, the increase in incarceration rates among high school graduates appeared to be much the same for both blacks and whites.

This hints that racism is not as good explanatory of high rates of African-American male incarceration. Police do not know whether the people they arrest have high school diplomas or not but most of the people they arrest are high school dropouts. This suggests that the opportunity cost and rewards of crime over lawful occupational pursuits is a driver of the supply of crime.

What are the Anglo-Saxon gender wage gaps?

Figure 1: % gender gap in median earnings of full-time employees, 2012

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Source: OECD family database

Richard Branson has announced a great paid leave policy for .2 percent of his workers

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via Richard Branson has announced a great paid leave policy for .2 percent of his workers – The Washington Post.

Trends in what drives single motherhood

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Why no (top 1% driven) middle class wage stagnation in (non-unionised) technologically progressive industries?

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The reversing gender gap in one chart

New Zealand primary school teachers have experienced rapid wages growth by international standards

Parental time usage, 1965 and now

Almost 8 in 10 daughters raised by the lowest- earning men make more money per hour than their fathers did

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via Women’s Work: The Economic Mobility of Women Across a Generation.

The mind is actually the last to go?

via BBC – Future – What’s the prime of your life?.

Today’s daughters earn much more than their mothers

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, slightly more than half of all mothers were in the labour force. These women worked, on average, 24 hours per week for a little more than $10 per hour.

Today, 85 percent of all daughters  are employed, and they work 10 additional hours per week and earn $9 more per hour.

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via Women’s Work: The Economic Mobility of Women Across a Generation.

Supply-side economics and the migration of inventors

The gender pay gap and motherhood

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