@JordanBPeterson On The Impact Of the Radical Left
24 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, labour economics Tags: gender wage gap, political correctness, regressive left
The Myth of the Rational Voter: Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies – Annual Casey-McIlvane Lecture
24 Feb 2020 1 Comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, economics of regulation, environmental economics, financial economics, industrial organisation, international economics, James Buchanan, labour economics, law and economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking Tags: rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Russian mates would sometimes be paid in dollars, sometimes local currency and sometimes not at all but still show up to work (as creditor in possession?)
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights Tags: fall of communism
Equal opportunity programs are the real driver of the academic gender wage gap
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice Tags: affirmative action, gender wage gap, unintended consequences
A fair summary by Dube; note repeated reference to modest increases. This can be offset by diluting service quality and staffing levels and hours such as in old age care studies
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, labour economics, minimum wage Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
Ben Vollaard on an unusually personalised habitual offender law @sst_nz @NZJusticeIdeas
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economics of crime, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
Why free childcare will never close the gender pay gap @women_nz
21 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap
The Stigler diet – dirt cheap but terribly boring
20 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in George Stigler, poverty and inequality
Thomas Sowell on Intellectuals and Society
19 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, economics of information, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, law and economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, rentseeking, Thomas Sowell Tags: The fatal conceit
Blokes are bigger
18 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in gender, health economics, sports economics Tags: Anti-Science left
Charles Murray — Human Diversity book release
17 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of love and marriage, health economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, economics of fertility, family poverty, marriage and divorce
Why so many jobs now require a college degree | reTHINK TANK
17 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of education, economics of information, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, graduate premium, signaling
Why Jordan Peterson is certain Icelands equal pay laws will fail
16 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, financial economics, gender, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - Australia, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle, theory of the firm Tags: gender wage gap
Another supply-side driven pay gap. How do employers learn sexual orientations to favour and discriminate?
15 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, economics of information, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap
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