Another job taken by robots
22 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
in economic history, industrial organisation, labour supply, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction, technological unemployment
NZ more homeless than Mexico? @MaxRashbrooke @EricCrampton @tslumley
21 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
in politics - New Zealand, population economics, poverty and inequality Tags: homelessness
https://twitter.com/MPD_NZ/status/887960123259277312
Source: OECD Affordable Housing Database – http://oe.cd/ahd OECD – Social Policy Division – Directorate of Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Last updated on 21/02/2017 HC3.1 HOMELESS POPULATION via http://www.oecd.org/social/affordable-housing-database.htm
The 1940s UK Kitchen shows how time consuming housework was
19 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, gender, labour economics, labour supply Tags: engines of liberation, household production, World War II
Banned from r/ProtectAndServe
18 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, politics - USA
The American police subreddit did not want to know that there were a few bad apples in their rank ranks despite the overall good news about the use of lethal force.
Blacks are not shot dead out of proportion but there are more incidents of excessive force which is nonlethal. Racists are cowards. There is excessive force under the colour of authority but they chicken out when there are real consequences and serious investigations.
Back when I was to evict a drug addict from a rented house and throw him out on the street
18 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, poverty and inequality, urban economics
While feuding with strangers on Facebook, I remembered I sat on the student housing committee as Treasurer of the Tasmanian University Union.
The committee worked very well because when students were defaulting on their rent or otherwise would be difficult, it was common for a member of the committee should know them. They could comment on whether the student was short of money or spending their money on alcohol or drugs often with them at the pub on Friday night. Several of us lived at university colleges so we knew lots of people. I told the committee to come down hard on one defaulting tenant because I knew he was wealthy and he just did not want to pay. He was just trying to on because he did not like to pay bills. We had the same problem with him paying the student club fees at my college.
I had a rather sleepless weekend because on Monday morning it was going to be the job of the committee to go around together and evict a student who refuse to pay his rent and refused to communicate with the housing officer, who was a professional housing officer. On Monday morning, I was greatly relieved to hear that he got in contact so he was not going to be evicted. I was one of several who knew of his drug habit.
My brother-in-law was a youth housing officer at the office of emergency housing in an Australian state. To do his job properly he had to face the world as it is.
He said that the clients he dealt with, the teenagers and so forth, would never be taken in by a private landlord because they do not pay their rent, damage the place and invite all their mates over for parties. He believed everyone should have a house, but he did not pretend they are all model tenants.
Bryan Caplan destroys connection between education and work skills
16 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital Tags: signalling
Is a basic income a good idea? IEA
06 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: UBI, universal basic income
Celebrating 40 years of training: Video Arts in the 80’s.
06 Jul 2017 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics
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