Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand Tags: gender wage gap
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in applied welfare economics, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, technological progress Tags: automation, creative destruction, technological unemployment
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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.
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in discrimination, gender, labour economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
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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.”
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in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: gender wage, reversing gender gap, sex discrimination
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in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, childcare, gender wage gap, household production
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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
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in industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, survivor principle Tags: cyber loafing
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in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, occupational choice, organisational economics, politics, Public Choice
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