How Obamacare affected employment

The downtrodden low paid workers are experiencing the fastest wages growth

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Career Advice From “Seinfeld”

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Poverty and family structure in America

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via Was Moynihan Right? What happens to the children of unmarried mothers : Education Next.

Is the gender wage gap in New Zealand 6% or 9.9%?

The OECD puts the gender wage gap in New Zealand at about 6% for full-time employees on an hourly basis when measured using median earnings.


The Ministry of Women’s Affairs puts that gender wage gap estimate at 9.9% by measuring median hourly earnings, but the Ministry includes both full-time and part-time employees.

Conflating full-time and part-time earnings when measuring wage gaps is unwise. The level of compensating differentials in full-time and part-time jobs differ. More of the net pay package of a part-time job would be convenience and flexibility. A full-time job tends to indicate greater commitment to the labour force day in day out and less interest in flexibility and time off during the week.

Women who worked 34 hours or less per week earned 5.6% more than their male counterparts

via 5 Things You Didn’t Know About the Gender Gap in Wages – WSJ.

The New Zealand gender wage gap is 6%, not 36% as the Greens claim

Another job that was replaced by a robot

https://twitter.com/classicepics/status/580517973569495040

Japan’s working age population is seriously shrinking

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Roberts Solow on the British disease and Eurosclerosis

Robert Solow amateur psychology

HT: Brad Delong

Where in the world do men do the most housework?

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The reversing gender gap

wives contribution to family earning

worklife conflict in couples

prime age female labour force participation

HT: The U.S. Economy According to the White House in 10 Charts – Real Time Economics – WSJ.

Female labour force participation rate changes since 2000

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The asymmetric marriage premium illustrated by the division of childcare

Paid Work Hours, by Number of Children

Most Mothers Experience a Major Career Interruption

Nearly half of baby boomers say they expect to work beyond 65

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