via 5 Things You Didn’t Know About the Gender Gap in Wages – WSJ.
Women who worked 34 hours or less per week earned 5.6% more than their male counterparts
26 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, part-time work
The gender gap that has no name
26 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, health and safety, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: fatal occupational injuries, gender fatalities gap, workplace injuries
The New Zealand gender wage gap is 6%, not 36% as the Greens claim
25 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand Tags: gender wage gap
Another job that was replaced by a robot
25 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, technological progress Tags: automation, creative destruction, technological unemployment
The industries where personal connections matter the most in getting a job – The Washington Post
23 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in job search and matching, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: job networks
via The industries where personal connections matter the most in getting a job – The Washington Post.
The mummy penalty in the labour market
21 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
Indian parents are scaling walls to help their kids cheat because economics
20 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education, human capital, occupational choice Tags: cheating, signalling
I ask what is the point of passing an exam where there is widespread cheating, and in consequence the exam has little credibility. What is the point of holding an exam when there is widespread cheating?
If you seek to learn skills, cheating would be totally counter-productive. But if the exam simply produces a credential that people accept, students look for ways to get the credential as painlessly as possible.
Cheating works best if the signalling model of education is true. Students should cheat more in those courses that offer the least productivity gains.
Serious cheaters have been found to be more likely to be younger and have a lower grade point average. But as Alex Tabarrok argues
“I sometimes find evidence of cheating on exams but I rarely take action, I don’t have to. Almost invariably the cheaters get abysmally low grades even without penalty.
Some people I know get annoyed when students without evident handicap ask for and receive special treatment such as extra time on exams. I comply without rancor as the extra time never seems to help. Over the years I have had a number of students ask for incompletes. None have ever become completes.
I call this the law of below averages.”
The reversing gender gap
19 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: gender wage, reversing gender gap, sex discrimination
The asymmetric marriage premium illustrated by the division of childcare
19 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, childcare, gender wage gap, household production
Nearly half of baby boomers say they expect to work beyond 65
18 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: ageing society, economics of retirement, labour demographics
Single parenthood in the USA by ethnicity
18 Mar 2015 1 Comment
in economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, economics of fertility, single parenthood, single parents
What are the biggest workplace time wasters?
16 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, survivor principle Tags: cyber loafing
An International Look at the Single-Parent Family–where is New Zealand?
16 Mar 2015 1 Comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, welfare reform Tags: economics of fertility, family demographics, labour demographics, single parents
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