Never in American history has technology displaced so few and scared so many. See chart: rate of occupational change (job churn) by decade, 1850 to 2015. pic.twitter.com/HXEFiGAEoL
— Taylor Mann (@Mann_Major) November 16, 2017
Yesteryear’s robots came for many more jobs
17 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: creative destruction, technological unemployment
Another way of saying that the superior reading and verbal skills of women directs them towards interactive occupations
10 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender gap
Why no pay equity at the Ministry of Women? @women_nz
05 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, public economics
Please no excuses like the recruitment pool is made up of too much of one gender and not enough of the other. The occupational choices and labour supply decisions of workers is never accepted as an excuse at the other end of this chart as valid reasons for departmental gender pay gaps.

The gender pay gap in the New Zealand state sector
05 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand
Econ Duel: Is Education Signaling or Skill Building?
29 Oct 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, economics of education, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: signalling
What Was the Industrial Revolution? Robert E. Lucas Jr.
25 Oct 2017 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic growth, economic history, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, occupational choice Tags: industrial revolution
Job ad that employs screening and self-selection
25 Oct 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, personnel economics Tags: moral hazard, screening, self-selection

Don’t know who this speaks worse off as tearaways?
14 Oct 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, health economics, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice
Human Capital and Signaling
09 Oct 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: signalling
Men are full of themselves, apparently
25 Sep 2017 Leave a comment
in entrepreneurship, gender, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
Homer Simpson: An economic analysis
19 Sep 2017 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, television Tags: Simpsons



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