Source: Best job ever? This UK cafe is hiring a cat nanny – Telegraph.
No #livingwage for #ManchesterCatCafe Nanny! Perhaps an example of compensating differentials?
04 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, labour supply, occupational choice
Almost everyone is working less.
01 Mar 2016 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply Tags: hours worked
@BernieSanders no living wage for interns @HillaryClinton hires interns illegally
28 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in minimum wage, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, interns, left-wing democracy, living wage
Bernie Sanders pays well below the $15 living wage he expects all other employers to be by law required to pay out of their equally limited budgets. His revolution will be built on near starvation wages for the work of the worker bees.
Implicit tax on a lone parent returning to a low-paid job in the USA, UK, Denmark, France, Germany, Canada, Australia and New Zealand
28 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, fiscal policy, labour economics, labour supply, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, public economics, welfare reform Tags: poverty traps, single mothers, single parents, social insurance, taxation and labour supply, welfare state
Men are 12X more likely than women to die from their jobs
28 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, health and safety, labour economics, occupational choice Tags: workplace fatalities
Ratio of unemployment and single parents benefit to the New Zealand net average wage since 1970
27 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, politics - New Zealand, welfare reform Tags: domestic purposes benefit, single mothers, single parents, social insurance, unemployment benefit, welfare state
Source: OECD Economic Survey New Zealand 2015.
Implicit tax on returning to work for a 2nd earner in ordinary US, Danish, British, New Zealand, Australian, Canadian, German and French families
26 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply
Not a lot of point for a 2nd earner in an ordinary family going back to work in the English-speaking countries once you consider the childcare fees for a 2-year-old and a 3-year-old. These calculations were released today in Paris in the OECD’s Going for Growth 2016.
Source: Economic Policy Reforms: Going for Growth – OECD (2016).
Will there be poverty on the Starship Enterprise?
26 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, poverty and inequality
A Facebook photo by Mary Ruwart reminded me of the question I posed in previous blog posts about whether there will be poverty on the Star Trek enterprise. Those security officers in the red tunics get a really bad deal, especially if they beam down to the planet with Captain Kirk.
The role of inheritance in top incomes
25 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, human capital, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, superstars, top 1%
Average #retirement ages across the OECD area
24 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in fiscal policy, labour economics, labour supply Tags: ageing society, demographic crisis, old-age pension, retirement ages
When the robots came to the farms
24 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, population economics, technological progress Tags: creative destruction, robots
British full-time gender wage gap by age band
23 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: British economy, full-time work, gender wage gap, part-time work
Note from @paulkrugman to @BernieSanders @JeremyCorbyn and their supporters
23 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economic history, economics of media and culture, economics of regulation, labour economics, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, antiforeign bias, antimarket bias, British politics, Leftover Left, make-work bias, rational ignorance, rational irrationality, renegade Left, Twitter left
@BernieSanders has the type of friends that make you prefer your enemies
22 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, fiscal policy, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, politics - USA Tags: 2016 presidential election, ageing society, cranks, demographic crisis, older workers, quackery, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
The economist costing the economic plan of a 74-year-old candidate forgot there is an ageing society in his labour force participation rate projections.
Source: Gerald Frieldman (2016).
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