An underdiscussed example of the Dunning-Kruger effect
18 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in human capital, labour economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics
Lesser known Swedish gender gaps
18 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, Sweden
Central planning on steroids
13 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, Marxist economics, occupational choice Tags: China, economics of central planning, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge
These numbers are so all over the place as to be unreliable
12 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
Equal Pay Day: Unravelling the victimhood narrative
10 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
More gender gaps
07 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender gap
Not even unions can stop women choosing work-life balance over equal earnings @women_nz @JulieAnneGenter
03 Nov 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice
From https://scholar.harvard.edu/bolotnyy/publications/why-do-women-earn-less-men-evidence-bus-and-train-operators-job-market-paper HT Marginal Revolution
The paper itself cannot be downloaded but clearly suggest they are detailed evidence on the work choices down to people nominating to rosters and taking up their roster nomination as a bus or train driver. This paper is therefore the only rival the Uber paper that found a zero gender pay gap once work-life balance choices were accounted for by women.
Gender Pay equality debate gets heated
31 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, econometerics, economics of education, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
Ideas and Growth Lecture with Nobel Laureate Robert E. Lucas Jr
31 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economic history, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, macroeconomics, occupational choice, Robert E. Lucas
Why does @women_nz @JulieAnneGenter treat men’s occupational choices as superior? Women choose more interactive occupations because of their vastly superior reading and verbal skills
28 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand Tags: gender wage gap
Labor Ethics | Political Philosophy with Jason Brennan
24 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking
Steven Pinker Defends James Damore Against Dishonest Slanderer
23 Oct 2018 1 Comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: employment law, gender wage gap
Submission to Select Committee on Equal Pay Amendment Bill
21 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand
This submission is made up of 6 attachments because that is the maximum I could load.
Attachments 1 and 2 are the main part of submission and argue that pay equity is unfair to fair employers. An employer can hire and promote on merit, pay the going wage and still be successfully sued. Their name blackened forever. As a question of social justice, it is wrong to sue someone as a discriminating employer, when there is nothing they could do to right the supposedly wrong they were successfully sued. Barnardo’s can no longer compete with social workers because of the pay equity settlement in the public sector. It relies on donations and tendering for public contracts. It has no capacity to raise wages but could be successfully sued and driven out of business.
Attachments 3 to 5 explains that the gender pay gap is the result of the work-life balance choices of women interacting with some professions penalising an inability to work specific hours or long hours much more than. Pay equity will address none of these issues.
Attachment 6 explains how more than 40 years ago Solomon Polachek found that the gender pay gap was driven by factors such as the number and spacing of children. Employers cannot discriminate against women because they do not know this information and it is now unlawful to ask. It is a strange misogyny that employers hire single women on merit but have a bias against mothers who have several children whose birthdates on widely spaced apart.
To conclude this overview, as attachment 3 shows in a graphic, the gender pay gap for women at the bottom and middle of the labour market is barely 3-5%. It is rather odd to be offering 30% pay rises for a group of women whose pay gap with men at the bottom and middle of the labour market is not more than 5%. Clearly the comparable worth methodology misses something.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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