Blind audition study: Truth or myth?
02 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, economics of information, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, personnel economics Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
James Heckman on affirmative action
01 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, urban economics Tags: affirmative action, child poverty, family poverty, racial discrimination, The fatal conceit
Affirmative Action and Its Mythology by Roland G. Fryer Jr. and Glenn C. Loury
01 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, gender, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: affirmative action
Real business cycle theory at its best
31 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
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My @NZHerald op-ed on sparing us from the @NZHumanRights @women_nz pay transparency nightmare
30 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, gender, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: envy, gender wage gap, The fatal conceit
Paywalled at http://nzh.tw/12304179
How 30 Students and a Dog Fled to a Safe Room from Christina Hoff Summers
30 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: free speech, political correctness, regressive left
The puzzling lesbian pay gap
28 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
When are the occupational hazards of gang membership too high?
28 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
The Tax Increases to Come – @WSJ
27 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of education, fiscal policy, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: 2020 presidential election, taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply
@moturesearch accused @CCDHB of paying mothers less despite having nothing on which female doctors have kids so it can discriminate against them more! @women_nz
23 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, Public Choice Tags: gender wage gap
Unusual case as allegation made against named employers subject to freedom of information laws. Can ask if they have the information needed to implement their nefarious misogynist plans.
Charles Murray on Coming Apart
23 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
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Do gender equality policies drive the academic gender pay gap? @moturesearch @women_nz
23 Jan 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA Tags: gender wage gap, unintended consequences
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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