From Y. Weiss et al. (eds.), Advances in the Theory and Measurement of Unemployment
What is new and true in efficiency wage theory?
24 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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.@Bryan_Caplan’s best presentation of the case against education
18 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economics of education, economics of information, history of economic thought, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: adverse selection, asymmetric information, College premium, graduate premium, screening, self-selection, signaling
Bertrand on gender diversity programs intensifying the glass ceiling
14 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: affirmative action, gender wage gap, glass ceiling, offsetting behaviour, sex discrimination, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
The Bill That Killed Freelance
11 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of religion, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, Marxist economics, occupational choice, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, unemployment Tags: employment law
Steve Kaplan Discusses CEO Pay
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, economics of education, economics of information, entrepreneurship, financial economics, human capital, income redistribution, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, market efficiency, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, property rights, Public Choice, rentseeking, survivor principle Tags: CEO pay, efficient markets hypothesis
Inequality in America: Taxes and the Ultra-Rich | Emmanuel Saez | Steven Kaplan | Luigi Zingales
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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Are CEOs overpaid?
05 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economics of information, financial economics, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights, theory of the firm Tags: CEO pay, efficient markets hypothesis
Richard Epstein, “The Coming Meltdown in Labor Relations”
02 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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Henry Ford had 450 employees in 1908!
01 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in economic history, entrepreneurship, health and safety, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, survivor principle Tags: creative destruction
Alan Manning on testing for monopsony power
26 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
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Russian mates would sometimes be paid in dollars, sometimes local currency and sometimes not at all but still show up to work (as creditor in possession?)
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, comparative institutional analysis, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, managerial economics, Marxist economics, organisational economics, personnel economics, property rights Tags: fall of communism
Equal opportunity programs are the real driver of the academic gender wage gap
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of bureaucracy, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, Public Choice Tags: affirmative action, gender wage gap, unintended consequences
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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