@mattyglesias poverty trends a good example of why americanprogress.org/issues/poverty… http://t.co/tgn7RzBKzw—
Shawn Fremstad (@inclusionist) March 28, 2015
The rising educational attainment of the poor
01 Apr 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: educational attainment
Musical life expectancy
31 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of media and culture, health economics, labour economics, Music, occupational choice Tags: compensating differentials, life expectancy
via The 27 Club is a myth: 56 is the bum note for musicians and Stairway to hell: life and death in the pop music industry..
A tale of two parents
30 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family demographics, family structures, single parents
Whitlam’s curse – How higher education drives inequality among the bottom 99%
30 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - USA Tags: David Autor, education premium, Gough Whitlam, top 1%
Gough Whitlam abolished tuition fees at Australian universities in 1972. The idea was to reduce inequality. He entrenched it instead, and gave a flying start to those of already above-average talents.
David Autor in a recent paper has illustrated how the gap between the highly educated and the less educated is growing at a far faster rate than the gap between the top 1% in the bottom 99% in the USA. David Autor argues that
a single minded focus on the top 1% can be counterproductive given that the changes to the other 99% have been more economically significant.
- since the early 1980s, the earnings gap between workers with a high school degree and those with a college education has become four times greater than the shift in income during the same period to the very top from the 99%.
- Between 1979 and 2012, the gap in median annual earnings between households of high-school educated workers and households with college-educated ones expanded from $30,298 to $58,249, or by roughly $28,000.
- If the incomes of the bottom 99% are grown at the same pace as the top 1% their incomes would have increased by $7000 per household.
Autor argues that the growth of skill differentials among the other 99% is more consequential than the rise of the 1% for the welfare of most citizens.
via How Education Drives Inequality Among the 99% – Real Time Economics – WSJ.
How Obamacare affected employment
30 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, health economics, job search and matching, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics Tags: Obamacare
Five years later, how has the #ACA affected U.S. employment? brook.gs/1OtYpvy http://t.co/yrN5aWP4Ns—
Brookings (@BrookingsInst) March 28, 2015
Guess Who Cares For Young Adults When They Move Back Home | FiveThirtyEight
30 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics Tags: household production
Did poverty increase after the 1996 US Federal welfare reforms?
29 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, labour economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: 1996 US welfare reforms, child poverty, poverty and inequality
The downtrodden low paid workers are experiencing the fastest wages growth
29 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
Poverty and family structure in America
28 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, single parents
The War on Poverty was won but for a measurement error
27 Mar 2015 2 Comments
in econometerics, economic history, poverty and inequality
The European minimum wage measured with the Big Mac index
27 Mar 2015 Leave a comment
in minimum wage Tags: Big Mac index, Eurosclerosis
Portugal's new minimum wage buys you 1.1 Big Macs – how that compares to other countries: theguardian.com/news/datablog/… http://t.co/0BHAfgRhHe—
Alberto Nardelli (@AlbertoNardelli) September 25, 2014
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