Your occasional reminder that Gary Becker was right. Taste discrimination is a business opportunity. https://t.co/6Xro4Q2fmS
— Tim Worstall (@worstall) March 13, 2022
If skilled labour is being kept out of the workplace for unreasonable reasons then that’s an opportunity for someone else to gain that labour on the cheap. Which is exactly what Dame Steve Shirley did
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in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, survivor principle Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, offsetting behaviour, sex discrimination, unintended consequences
Matthew E. Kahn discusses his new book Going Remote
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, transport economics, urban economics Tags: economics of pandemics
Passages of life
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in economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: employment law, law and order

Another gender gap
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in discrimination, economic history, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap

Addressing economic disparity challenges in NZ
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: child poverty, family poverty
The twilight of the Age of Exploration
10 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, health and safety, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: Age of exploration

Robert Trivers on parental investment
05 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology
Australian graduate premium
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in economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: Australia, graduate premium

Alan Manning “Monopsony and the wage effects of migration”
12 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: economics of immigration, monopsony
The World’s Deadliest Construction Projects
06 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, health and safety, labour economics, occupational choice
Walter Block on sex Discrimination
04 Jan 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of information, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, market efficiency, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
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Why Elizabeth Warren’s Wealth Tax Won’t Work
31 Dec 2021 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, survivor principle Tags: regressive left, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and savings



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