Your occasional reminder that Gary Becker was right. Taste discrimination is a business opportunity. https://t.co/6Xro4Q2fmS
— Tim Worstall (@worstall) March 13, 2022
If skilled labour is being kept out of the workplace for unreasonable reasons then that’s an opportunity for someone else to gain that labour on the cheap. Which is exactly what Dame Steve Shirley did
05 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, discrimination, economic history, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, survivor principle Tags: entrepreneurial alertness, offsetting behaviour, sex discrimination, unintended consequences
Matthew E. Kahn discusses his new book Going Remote
04 Apr 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, health economics, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, transport economics, urban economics Tags: economics of pandemics
Passages of life
20 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, economics of regulation, entrepreneurship, health economics, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, liberalism, libertarianism, Marxist economics, occupational choice, Public Choice, survivor principle, unemployment Tags: employment law, law and order

Another gender gap
19 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: gender wage gap

Planet Normal: Race report author Dr Tony Sewell on attempts to discredit his findings on race relations
19 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: racial discrimination
Addressing economic disparity challenges in NZ
19 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, discrimination, economic history, economics of education, entrepreneurship, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: child poverty, family poverty
V. Bhaskar, Alan Manning and Ted To on monopsony
15 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, labour economics, labour supply

The twilight of the Age of Exploration
10 Mar 2022 Leave a comment
in economic history, health and safety, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice Tags: Age of exploration

Pay transparency laws reduce the gender pay gap primarily by slowing wage growth for male employees
28 Feb 2022 Leave a comment

Friedman Fundamentals: Unions And Free Market Labor
16 Feb 2022 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, history of economic thought, labour economics, labour supply, Milton Friedman, minimum wage, unions



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