Labor Ethics | Political Philosophy with Jason Brennan
24 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, development economics, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, economics of crime, health and safety, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, minimum wage, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking
Why the kids climate suit is rubbish: courts cannot order Congress to pass laws
24 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in environmental economics, global warming, law and economics, politics - USA, Public Choice, rentseeking Tags: climate alarmists
What Happens if you Renounce Your Citizenship But Don’t Belong to Another Country When You Do It?
24 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in international economic law, International law, politics - USA, Public Choice, public economics
A FB cycling hate group! Ridiculous FB hate speech rules
23 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in politics - Australia, transport economics Tags: free speech, road safety
Steven Pinker Defends James Damore Against Dishonest Slanderer
23 Oct 2018 1 Comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, law and economics, occupational choice, politics - USA, survivor principle Tags: employment law, gender wage gap
Historiography of Soviet Espionage in America (Part 2) Ronald Radosh
22 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - USA Tags: Cold War
Money For Nothing: Inside the Federal Reserve – Trailer
21 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in business cycles, economic growth, economics of bureaucracy, global financial crisis (GFC), great recession, inflation targeting, macroeconomics, monetary economics, politics - USA, Public Choice Tags: economics of central banking
Submission to Select Committee on Equal Pay Amendment Bill
21 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, industrial organisation, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand
This submission is made up of 6 attachments because that is the maximum I could load.
Attachments 1 and 2 are the main part of submission and argue that pay equity is unfair to fair employers. An employer can hire and promote on merit, pay the going wage and still be successfully sued. Their name blackened forever. As a question of social justice, it is wrong to sue someone as a discriminating employer, when there is nothing they could do to right the supposedly wrong they were successfully sued. Barnardo’s can no longer compete with social workers because of the pay equity settlement in the public sector. It relies on donations and tendering for public contracts. It has no capacity to raise wages but could be successfully sued and driven out of business.
Attachments 3 to 5 explains that the gender pay gap is the result of the work-life balance choices of women interacting with some professions penalising an inability to work specific hours or long hours much more than. Pay equity will address none of these issues.
Attachment 6 explains how more than 40 years ago Solomon Polachek found that the gender pay gap was driven by factors such as the number and spacing of children. Employers cannot discriminate against women because they do not know this information and it is now unlawful to ask. It is a strange misogyny that employers hire single women on merit but have a bias against mothers who have several children whose birthdates on widely spaced apart.
To conclude this overview, as attachment 3 shows in a graphic, the gender pay gap for women at the bottom and middle of the labour market is barely 3-5%. It is rather odd to be offering 30% pay rises for a group of women whose pay gap with men at the bottom and middle of the labour market is not more than 5%. Clearly the comparable worth methodology misses something.
Maori incomes up 88% since 1994; Pasifika incomes up 78%; Pakeha incomes up only 63%
21 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - New Zealand
Who Could Trump Beat In 2020?
20 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in politics - USA Tags: 2020 presidential election
.@thinkprogress explains why @jamespeshaw doesn’t want to know the cost of #globalwarming as % of NZ GDP
20 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, environmental economics, global warming, politics - New Zealand Tags: climate alarmists
I blame rising inequality
20 Oct 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, politics - USA, poverty and inequality
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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