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Fabian Society and Church of England caught out as hypocrites on London Living Wage of £18,000
06 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, minimum wage, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: British economy, British politics, Church of England, expressive voting, Fabian Society, hard budget constraints, Left-wing hypocrisy, living wage, market selection
Matt Ridley on the Pope and The Great Fact
06 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, energy economics, entrepreneurship, environmental economics, financial economics, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics, history of economic thought, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, liberalism, survivor principle Tags: doomsday prophecies, Matt Ridley doomsday prophets, Papal economics, The Great Enrichment, The Great Escape, The Great Fact
See which way the data points for yourself, like @mattwridley. buff.ly/1HsZxgx #health #progress http://t.co/B3KbUJOn05—
HumanProgress.org (@humanprogress) June 30, 2015
200 years of American immigration
06 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA Tags: economics of immigration
.@ImmigrationGOP is wrong. Immigration today is not "beyond any historical precedent" niskanencenter.org/blog/niskanen-… http://t.co/0A9LIekqjb—
David Bier (@myfreesociety) May 28, 2015
Greece in 7 charts
06 Jul 2015 3 Comments
in budget deficits, business cycles, currency unions, economic growth, Euro crisis, fiscal policy, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, unemployment Tags: Eurosclerosis, Greece
The extreme economic outlier that is Greece, in 7 charts: 53eig.ht/1GMgIFU http://t.co/gb3zkgUqqJ—
(@FiveThirtyEight) July 04, 2015
Nobel-Winning Scientists are Getting Older
05 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of education, human capital, industrial organisation, personnel economics Tags: death of the Renaissance man, Nobel prizes, rising burden of knowledge
Why Nobel-Winning Scientists are Getting Older:
priceonomics.com/why-nobel-winn… http://t.co/rNxCUS0xG2—
Priceonomics (@priceonomics) April 10, 2015
Dual income nation
05 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, dual income couples, economics of families, reversing gender gap
@MaxCRoser only one line in this chart about India matters
05 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles, poverty and inequality, Public Choice Tags: capitalism and freedom, extreme poverty, global poverty, India, Leftover Left, The Great Escape, The Great Fact, top 1%
In #India poverty is falling very, very rapidly – while inequality is rising.
More at: bit.ly/1KLT8Lh http://t.co/xTxlW1i06o—
Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) June 29, 2015
Haredi Jews and employment
05 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of religion, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: economics of identity, female labour force participation, Israel, male labour force participation
Haredi Jews and employment: Eat, pray, don’t work econ.st/1QVeL48 http://t.co/gxTI56rrTv—
The Economist (@EconEconomics) June 27, 2015
The graduate premium for New Zealand is at the bottom of the OECD ladder
05 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand Tags: College premium, education premium, graduate premium
The role of low wages in poverty
04 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: expressive politics, Leftover Left, poverty, rational ignorance, rational irrationality
Gender wage gap, USA, UK, Australia and New Zealand since 2001
04 Jul 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, gender, labour economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: Australia, British economy, gender wage gap
Figure 1: Gender wage gap (unadjusted % difference between median wages of male and female full-time employees)
Source: OECD StatExtract.
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