@TransportBlog should bikes be banned as unsafe?
05 Jan 2016 2 Comments
in applied welfare economics, health and safety, transport economics
Should swimming be banned?
04 Jan 2016 2 Comments
in economics of regulation, health and safety, health economics, labour economics
Many more drown in New Zealand than die at work. There is heavy regulation of workplace risks. The same cannot be said for people to jump into beaches, rivers and streams. Many more go to work each day as compared to going swimming.
Source: Annual Statistics » DrownBase and Workplace fatalities by industry | Worksafe.
Voluntary assumption of risk cuts no ice with those that champion stronger occupational health and safety regulation. The approach to water safety is near laissez-faire both in terms of the rules and enforcement and certainly in terms of success in reducing drownings. The large variations in annual drownings suggest that human behaviour has a lot to do with drownings.
Workplace fatalities by industry in New Zealand since 2010
04 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in health and safety, labour economics, politics - New Zealand Tags: workplace fatalities
Working in forestry and agriculture is dangerous in New Zealand. There are only about four and half thousand agricultural workers but five to 10 die every year. Agriculture is also relatively dangerous. The Pike River mining disaster killed 29 in 2010. Construction, a large industry, also has a number of fatalities.
Source: Workplace fatalities by industry | Worksafe.
Source: Workplace fatalities by industry | Worksafe.
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A Day in the Life of Americans
01 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: labour demographics
Why aren’t female wages stagnating?
30 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, gender, labour economics Tags: gender wage gap, middle-class wage stagnation
Occupational Health & Safety has come a long way
29 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health and safety, labour economics Tags: Eiffel Tower, Paris, The Great Escape
Unharnessed painters work amid the Eiffel Tower. Circa 1910. http://t.co/N7yE7OaKGm—
Old Pics Archive (@oldpicsarchive) June 13, 2015
The reverse gender gap in clothes prices
29 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, gender Tags: reverse gender gap
Crime way down in NYC
28 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: law and order, New York City
The reversing gender gap in marathon completion
28 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, gender, labour economics Tags: marathons, reversing gender gap
A surprising number of clergy are not working on Christmas Day
25 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: Christmas Day, compensating differentials
How many people in the UK work on Christmas day? gu.com/p/44baf/stw http://t.co/EjdUEFSbr7—
Guardian Data (@GuardianData) December 22, 2014
Occupational Health & Safety has come a long way
23 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, health and safety, labour economics Tags: workplace safety
A fearless worker standing on the unfinished Golden Gate Bridge, 1935. http://t.co/wxR1f96gMN—
History in Pictures (@HistoryFlick) August 12, 2015
Loury and McWhorter tackle the racial mismatch hypothesis and Affirmative Action
23 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, human capital, labour economics Tags: affirmative action, racial discrimination
Do they have academic tenure anymore?
23 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: academic tenure, compensating differentials, occupational choice
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Education and the risk of criminality
22 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of education, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA Tags: crime and punishment
@TransportBlog @JulieAnneGenter community outrage at new bike lane death trap in Island Bay
22 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
in health and safety, politics - New Zealand, transport economics, urban economics
Source: Wellington’s Island Bay cycleway has left residents confused and angry | Stuff.co.nz.
We drove past this bicycle death trap in island Bay in Wellington the other weekend. The first thing I noticed is a lot of bicycle will be sideswiped as passengers in cars open their left door not expecting anybody to be there. The bike lane also narrows the road from buses. Residents now have a lot of trouble safely getting out of their houses without both are running over bicyclists and seeing oncoming cars. Further proof that bikes are a killer green technology.
Source: Wellington’s Island Bay cycleway has left residents confused and angry | Stuff.co.nz.
Part of the nonsense behind this death trap is that more people ride their bike if they can do so safely such as on this death trap according to the local mayor:
Wellington Mayor Celia Wade-Brown acknowledged the recent social media backlash – which she dubbed “bike-lash” – but was confident it would simmer down once the cycleway was complete.
She pointed to the council’s research, which showed 76 per cent of Wellingtonians would cycle more if cycling was safer.
“And I think a scientific survey is a clearer indication [of Wellingtonians’ views on the cycleway] than the number of social media likes or dislikes.”
Obviously our local mayor has not heard of the social acceptability bias that arises when answering questions about whether or whether not they are use fashionable forms of transport.
The number of people in Wellington taking a bicycle to work in Wellington is trivial. Three times as many walk to work as take a bike to work in Wellington.
Source: New Zealand Transport Agency.
The Twitter Left mantra as championed by the Greens and Transport Blog is that it would all be so much different we invested a little bit more in public transport is a myth.
The experience in Europe and North America is that if you make buses free, the cheapies that currently bike take the bus or train. In addition, the street people find it comfortable warm place to hang out when during the day which drives the regular customers away.
A 2002 report released by the National Center for Transportation Research indicated that the lack of fares attracted hordes of young people, who brought with them a culture of vandalism, graffiti, and bad behavior—which all necessitated costly maintenance. The lure of “free,” the report implied, attracted the “wrong” crowd—the “right” crowd, of course, being wealthier people with cars, who aren’t very sensitive to price changes.
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