Efforts to eliminate occupational gender gaps tacitly treat male-typical choices as superior
07 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
Women want workaholic men in positions of power
06 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, superstars
What Do Entrepreneurs Actually Do?
05 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of information, entrepreneurship, fisheries economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, entrepreneurial alertness, superstar wages, superstars, top 1%
Friedman (1951) thought the union wage premium was overstated because it can’t be as big as doctors’ extract from occupational licensing
02 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, Milton Friedman, occupational choice, occupational regulation, Public Choice, rentseeking, unions Tags: barriers to entry, occupational licensing, union power, union wage premium
Why so much rule breaking?
01 Dec 2019 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, gender, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: law and order
This Unpleasant Royal Job Came with a Fancy Title
30 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of bureaucracy, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, Public Choice, rentseeking
Who will fund the old age pension?
28 Nov 2019 1 Comment
in labour economics, labour supply, population economics, public economics Tags: ageing society
Jordan Peterson: Do Marxists Really Have Sympathy for the Working Class?
28 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, Public Choice Tags: envy, regressive left
Labour supply in the Indian caste system
28 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of information, economics of religion, growth disasters, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: caste system, India, religious discrimination
@BernieSanders explains @fightfor15 to @AOC
25 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Will @jeremycorbyn’s 4-day work week end 5-day test matches? Olympics? Wimbledon? Professional sport?
25 Nov 2019 Leave a comment
in economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, Marxist economics, Public Choice, sports economics Tags: British politics, offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
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