“She was a detective. She has inspired many researchers to study these questions
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, econometerics, economic history, gender, history of economic thought, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap, sex discrimination
Claudia Goldin | Women in Economics
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
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Claudia Goldin – Why Women Won
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Union Busted
09 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in labour economics, unions Tags: union power
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) just filed for bankruptcy because it lost a case with a port operator in Portland. The back story is amazing. The ILWU is one of the most powerful unions in the United States. Since bloody riots in 1934 it has controlled all 29 seaports on the west coast of the […]
Union Busted
Alan Manning – minimum wage
07 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, econometerics, economic history, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage
Why Sweden Isn’t an Example of Socialism
04 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in economic growth, economic history, economics of regulation, history of economic thought, industrial organisation, labour economics, macroeconomics, welfare reform Tags: Sweden
When I meet Americans who self-identify as “socialists,” it is quite uncommon for them to advocate the abolition of private property and the “collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods”–which is the dictionary definition of socialism. Instead most of the American “socialists” I meet favor a more…
Why Sweden Isn’t an Example of Socialism
Does Government Debt Matter Anymore? | Perspectives On Policy
02 Oct 2023 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics
The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in labour economics, labour supply, population economics
That is a new JEP piece by Melissa S. Kearney, Phillip B. Levine, and Luke Pardue. The piece, while not easily summarized, is interesting throughout. Here is one bit: The decline in birth rates has been widespread across the country. Birth rates fell in every state over this period, except for North Dakota. One possible […]
The Puzzle of Falling US Birth Rates since the Great Recession
What Can We Conclude from the Evidence on Minimum Wages and Employment? …
30 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, econometerics, economic history, economics of regulation, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, unemployment
More “Social Justice Fallacies,” with Thomas Sowell | Uncommon Knowledge
29 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, liberalism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, Thomas Sowell, unemployment Tags: racial discrimination, sex discrimination
John Cochrane — Is It Getting Hot in Here?
28 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in budget deficits, business cycles, economic growth, economic history, fiscal policy, labour economics, macroeconomics, monetary economics, unemployment
Handy guide
09 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of crime, economics of media and culture, gender, law and economics, liberalism, Marxist economics Tags: free speech, political correctness, racial discrimination, regressive left, sex discrimination
Law-Abiding Immigrants
08 Sep 2023 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: economics of immigration, law and order
The subtitle is The Incarceration Gap Between Immigrants and the U.S.-Born, 1850–2020, and the authors are Ran Abramitzky, Leah Boustan, Elisa Jácome, Santiago Pérez, and Juan David Torres. Here is the to-the-point abstract: Combining full-count Census data with Census/ACS samples, the researchers provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1870–2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants […]
Law-Abiding Immigrants
Discrimination?
31 Aug 2023 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: sex discrimination
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