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EPI Chart Bot (@epichartbot) May 27, 2015
The education premium has immediate effects
17 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: College premium, education premium, graduate premium, high school dropouts
Why do these top 0.1 percenters get a pass from the Occupied Movement and Twitter Left?
15 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economics of media and culture, income redistribution, movies, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, TV shows Tags: comedy, Left-wing hypocrisy, Leftover Left, Occupy Wall Street, top 1%, Twitter left
The 25 richest comedians (or why not to go into standup comedy) from @randal_olson randalolson.com/2015/03/04/top… http://t.co/cp3lSnuPOf—
Tyler Vigen (@TylerVigen) March 17, 2015
Middle class stagnation versus food poverty
15 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, technological progress Tags: good old days, middle class stagnation, The Great Enrichment, wage stagnation
CHART: As a share of income, spending on food has gone from 25% in 1930s to < 10% in 2013. http://t.co/pxRgf6tNOZ—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) May 14, 2015
@phattonez Note that almost 50% of food expenditures are for now food away from home. http://t.co/zWAu0Zlw82—
Mark J. Perry (@Mark_J_Perry) May 18, 2015
The average American woman now weighs as much as the average 1960s man
14 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: economics of physiology, family poverty, obesity, The Great Escape
Gender wage gaps for tertiary educated and high school educated full-time workers in Anglo-Saxon countries
13 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, Australia, British economy, Canada, gender wage gap, Ireland, labour demographics, maternal labour supply
In another blow for the inherent inequality of bargaining power between workers and employers, and for the patriarchy, the wage gap is larger for tertiary educated female full-time workers aged 35-44 than it is for female full-time workers who just finished high school.
Figure 1: gender wage gap for mean full-time, full-year earnings for tertiary educated workers aged 35 – 44, 2012
Source: OECD family database.
To add insult to injury, the gender wage gap further tertiary educated female workers is quite large in the USA but quite small for high school graduates.
Figure 2: gender wage gap for mean full-time, full-year earnings for below upper secondary educated workers aged 35 – 44, 2012
Source: OECD family database.
Canada seems to be a bit of a patriarchal hellhole while New Zealand does pretty well in gender wage gaps.
The gender gap in figure 1 and in figure 2 are unadjusted and calculated as the difference between mean average annual full-time, full-year earnings of men and of women as a percentage of men’s earnings.
Trends in what drives single motherhood
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
Divorce used to be biggest engine of single parenthood in America. No more. It's nonmarital childbearing cc@davidfrum http://t.co/J5yZtUukNW—
W Bradford Wilcox (@WilcoxNMP) June 10, 2015
Why no (top 1% driven) middle class wage stagnation in (non-unionised) technologically progressive industries?
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
.@CEAChair: Higher productivity needed for increases in income on.wsj.com/1E4jGDQ @MarkMuro1 Agreed. Proof here http://t.co/oZ76aeQdiq—
Jonathan T. Rothwell (@jtrothwell) March 11, 2015
Wages & productivity are growing together in high R&D-STEM industries brook.gs/1D5Pqxc @CEAChair @MarkMuro1 http://t.co/fe5MDomJqE—
Jonathan T. Rothwell (@jtrothwell) March 11, 2015
The reversing gender gap in one chart
11 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: gender wage gap, lost boys, reversing gender gap
Gender gap in bachelor's is 6 percentage points. Men now where women were a decade ago.
nces.ed.gov/programs/diges… http://t.co/u9rAsIcfY0—
S Dynarski (@dynarski) June 01, 2015
Almost 8 in 10 daughters raised by the lowest- earning men make more money per hour than their fathers did
08 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: economic mobility, gender wage gap, reversing gender gap
In which Anglo-Saxon country is full-time work not enough to escape family poverty on the minimum wage?
07 Jun 2015 1 Comment
in labour economics, minimum wage, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: earned income tax credit, poverty traps, single parents, taxation and the labour supply, welfare state
Figure 1: Weekly working hours needed at minimum-wage to move above a 50% relative poverty line after taxes, mandatory social or private contributions payable by workers, and family benefits for lone parent with two children, Anglo-Saxon countries, 2013
New Zealand does rather well on many measures of poverty and inequality
05 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, minimum wage, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, living wage, welfare state
Tough times? On #MayDay, compare % of low-paid #workers in yr country bit.ly/1EFrrV7 #LabourDay http://t.co/jNBrmjcom9—
(@OECD) May 01, 2015
Working for minimum wage? See how your country compares, then read oe.cd/mw2015 ( PDF) #wages http://t.co/DJsLYawtfw—
(@OECD) May 06, 2015
Who gained the most from US 1996 Federal welfare reforms?
01 Jun 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: 1996 US welfare reforms, racial discrimination, social insurance, welfare state
Pay is always net of human capital accumulation
31 May 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, minimum wage, occupational choice, poverty and inequality Tags: College premium, education premium, internships, on-the-job human capital
Families with single mothers face the greatest risk of falling into deep poverty
20 May 2015 1 Comment
American families with single mothers face the greatest risk of falling into deep poverty: brook.gs/1IVXiTo http://t.co/dwLcQzvHkh—
Brookings (@BrookingsInst) May 13, 2015
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