The UK gender pay gap begins at 30(ish)
09 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, gender wage gap
Standing over the grave of unions…
08 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, unions Tags: strikes, union power, union wage premium
Working days lost due to labour disputes since the 1890s ow.ly/PG79m http://t.co/ZGMR5E7Yb8—
(@ONS) July 16, 2015
The mancession
06 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic history, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, unemployment Tags: reversing gender gap
Maybe teaching quality does matter
05 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, politics - USA Tags: economics of teachers
More on the alienated proletariat
05 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of media and culture, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, personnel economics Tags: Class war, Withering away of the proletariat
Is sociology really irrelevant in policy debates?
03 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, economics of bureaucracy, economics of media and culture, income redistribution, labour economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: compensating differentials, evidence-based policy, media bias, offsetting behaviour, public intellectuals, sociology, The fatal conceit, The pretence to knowledge, unintended consequences
Is sociology really irrelevant in policy debates? @familyunequal does a better job with the #s blog.contexts.org/2015/01/25/soc… http://t.co/c4E25DTCmm—
(@SocImages) February 04, 2015
Human capital accumulation and economic growth
01 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economics of education, human capital, labour economics, macroeconomics Tags: educational attainment, endogenous growth theory, human capital, knowledge capital
Fair Trade: Does It Help Poor Workers?
01 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: antimarket bias, expressive voting, fair trade, rational irrationality
How is the top 10% doing?
01 Sep 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, human capital, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: envy, top 1%
Hours worked per year across the OECD
31 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply Tags: hours worked
Single motherhood and the feminisation of poverty
31 Aug 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, child poverty, economics and fertility, engines of liberation, family poverty, marriage and divorce, marriage premium, single mothers, single parents
43.1% of single mothers are living in poverty this #MothersDay statusofwomendata.org http://t.co/OgWcmvLnDZ—
IWPR (@IWPResearch) May 10, 2015





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