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Source: THE LIVING WAGE in the People-Centred, Smart Capital of Aotearoa/New Zealand Addressing inequality starting with Wellington City Council This report was prepared for Living Wage Wellington with the assistance of Prue Hyman, formerly Associate Professor of Economics and Gender and Women’s Studies at Victoria University of Wellington at https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/nzlivingwage/pages/129/attachments/original/1434872254/Living_Wage_Wellington_CC.pdf?1434872254
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Source: Living Wage Aotearoa New Zealand THE LIVING WAGE MOVEMENT (undated).
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The report was my source for the Wellington Parking wardens not being rehired after their jobs were upgraded to a living wage job. The jobs were taken in house as a legal subterfuge to get around the inability to pay them the living wage when they are employed by Parkwise, a council contractor. The Local Government Act requires value for money to be secured if you pay more for a service.
Source: The campaign to become New Zealand’s first Living Wage council Living Wage Wellington’s journey with Wellington City Council — review of the first three years. Lyndy McIntyre Community organiser, Living Wage Movement Aotearoa NZ January 2016 no longer available at https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/nzlivingwage/pages/89/attachments/original/1456712781/Living_Wage_update_2016_FCSPRU_2.16.pdf?1456712781 via
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in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, transport economics Tags: gender wage gap
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in applied price theory, economic history, labour economics, labour supply Tags: creative destruction, technological unemployment
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in economic history, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply Tags: creative destruction, technological unemployment
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in applied price theory, discrimination, entrepreneurship, gender, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: gender wage gap
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in applied price theory, discrimination, economics, gender, health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, occupational segregation
NZ has a gender wage gap of 6% according to the OECD and 12% according to the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, with 30% of that explained by occupational segregation. That is 2 to 4 percentage points.
You have to explain occupational segregation. Men are represented more in occupations that are riskier. They are paid more for that. There are systematic differences in the occupational choices of married parents, single parents and single mothers regarding the risks of injury. Again, that feeds into wages.
Occupational segregation explains 2 to 4 percentage points of wages. Given that risk premiums – danger money – and trading lower wages for greater flexibility in a job can easily reduce wages or increase them by 2-4%, occupational segregation is simply a proxy for measurement error.
Still more of wage premiums has to be poured into this 2-4% of wages such as occupational segregation in unsocial work hours. Many more women than men work 9 to 5 during the week. Men would then have a wage premium for working nights and weekends. A hell a lot has to be explained away by just 2 to 4% wages.
What does undervalued work mean? Does it mean it is very profitable to employ women in certain occupations such as caring. That implies that high profits will lead new firms to enter these industries bidding up wages and equalising them with other competing jobs.
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
Celebrating humanity's flourishing through the spread of capitalism and the rule of law
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