Why is there still a gender pay gap?
02 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
7 ways a trip to Mars could kill you
02 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in health and safety, health economics, occupational choice, transport economics Tags: Mars, space
Stossel: The End of Tipping?
01 Aug 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality Tags: tipping
Chimney Sweep / Climbing Boy (Worst Jobs in History)
31 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: child labour, industrial revolution
The blind spots of sociologists
30 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of education, gender, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap

Press Gangs
28 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice
Knocker-upper (Weird Jobs in History)
20 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: The Great Enrichment
Piketty is a supply-side economists?
12 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, entrepreneurship, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, public economics Tags: taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, top 1%

The Uber gender wage gap, risk tolerance and compensating differences
09 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, transport economics Tags: compensating differences, gender wage gap


Modern empirical labour economics found men too boring to study. They join workforce after school, retire at 65 then drop dead not long after!
01 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: Claudia Goldin

The Gender Pay Gap
01 Jul 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, pessimism bias, political correctness
Solomon Polachek on the day the demand-side sex discrimination hypothesis accidentally died
29 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap

Stigler explains how intellectuals and consultants ply their policy trade honestly
28 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, George Stigler, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: consultants, job sorting, public intellectuals



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