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Lower Working Age Population and Secular Stagnation

11 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in labour economics, labour supply, population economics Tags: , ,

via CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST: Lower Working Age Population and Secular Stagnation.

Bad career advice and well paid blue-collar jobs

11 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of education, occupational choice Tags:

https://www.facebook.com/WeAreCapitalists/photos/a.157549024416648.1073741826.157541337750750/373535216151360/?type=1

One of the many excellent points Charles Murray makes is too many teenagers of average or modest academic ability are encouraged to go on to higher education. Their career advisers and schools do not alert them to the many well-paid blue-collar jobs that do not require higher education or at least no university education.

When did global technological leadership migrate across the Atlantic?

10 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic growth, human capital, politics - USA, technological progress Tags: , , , ,

HT: theatlantic.com/a-short-history-of-american-invention/385279/ via Mikko Packalen and Jay Bhattacharya

The Unappreciated Success Of Charter Schools

10 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of education, Public Choice, rentseeking, unions Tags: ,

via The Unappreciated Success Of Charter Schools.

The division of labour between modern parents

10 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in labour economics, labour supply Tags: , , ,

Notice that mothers spent about 30 hours per week on housework in the 1960s. The engines of liberation were smaller families and the availability of a large number of labour saving household white goods, and preprepared and takeaway food.

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The great crossover: age of first marriage and of first birth

09 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

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How many were on Unemployment Insurance

09 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in labour economics, labour supply, unemployment Tags:

via CONVERSABLE ECONOMIST: The Disconnections of Unemployment Insurance.

Everyone is richer in the USA and the middle class is moving up

09 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economic growth, great recession, macroeconomics, poverty and inequality Tags:

The middle class is shrinking in the USA because most of of 10% shrinkage is due to them becoming rich.

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Everyone is wealthier than in the past and would have been wealthier but for the Great Recession and the countless tax rises of Obama.

 

The first Paul Krugman on efficiency wage arguments for a higher minimum wage

09 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in labour economics, minimum wage, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: , , ,

HT: economistsview

The rise of single parenthood in the USA

09 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in labour economics, politics - USA, population economics, welfare reform Tags:

Growth of Unwed childebearing by race

via http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/09/marriage-americas-greatest-weapon-against-child-poverty

The Evolution Of The Employee

09 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in health and safety, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, market efficiency, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags:

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HT: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jacobmorgan/2014/09/02/the-evolution-of-the-employee/?utm_campaign=forbestwittersf&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

Why Don’t More People Want a Job?

08 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in labour economics, labour supply, unemployment Tags: , , ,

via Number of the Week: Why Don’t More People Want a Job? – Real Time Economics – WSJ.

The three laws of behavioural genetics

08 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of education, human capital, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: , ,

 

HT: Eric Turkheimer

Political ideologies mapped by profession

08 Feb 2015 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in economics of media and culture, human capital, occupational choice Tags: ,

https://twitter.com/RupertMyers/status/563976298314604544

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