The percentage of sole parent households varies widely across the OECD member countries charted below including between the English-speaking countries.
Source: OECD Family Database.
Living arrangements of children, USA, UK, New Zealand, France, Canada, Australia, Sweden, Germany, Italy and Japan
24 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of love and marriage, population economics
Keep calm and carry on – the British gender pay gaps at the 10th, 50th and 90th percentiles
23 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, human capital, labour economics, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, population economics Tags: gender wage gap
Unlike New Zealand or the USA, there is been steady progress up and down the entire British labour market in closing the gender pay gap.
Source: OECD Employment Database.
Most of Canada lives near the border
15 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in population economics Tags: Canada, economics of borders, NAFTA
Half of Canada lives south of the red line, or 45.7 degrees north.
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Left-wing vote in German federal elections since 1949
11 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, population economics
The far left of the German Bundestag is so wacky that the Social Democratic prefer a grand coalition with the Conservative parties over teaming up with the Greens and the Left party.
Source: Wikipedia.
British and New Zealand fertility rate since 1855
11 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, population economics
New Zealand women have always had more children than British women with a sizeable gap in the 20th century. Putting the baby boom aside, British fertility has often not been much more than replacement rate since the 1920s.
Source: GapMinder data.
Refugee populations by country of asylum – UK, USA, France and Germany since 1960
10 Oct 2015 1 Comment
in economic history, population economics, war and peace
I had to use two charts because Germany hosted so many refugees after in the early 1990s that it made the reading the remaining data not possible because of the scale of the axis.
UNHCR – UNHCR Statistical Online Population Database.
British, French, German and Italian asylum seeker intake since 1980
09 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, population economics, war and peace
The Germans admitted so many asylum seekers in the early 1990s that I have had to reproduce the graph without Germany so some meaningful interpretation can be made of the three other countries.
Data extracted on 08 Oct 2015 09:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
The British started to admit a great many more refugees at the end of the 1990s compared to the already large number admitted at the beginning. Italy is only started offering shelter to a significant number of asylum seekers since the end of the 1990s. The French have been pretty consistently admitting reasonable numbers of asylum seekers and adjusting their quota upwards in a crisis.
Data extracted on 08 Oct 2015 09:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
Scandinavian asylum seeker intake since 1980
09 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, population economics, war and peace
Sweden took in so many asylum seekers in the early 1990s that I am reproducing the graph for the period after to give the data more meaning. Swedish generosity so dominates the rest of Scandinavia that it distorts any reading of the graph unless it is split into two.
Data extracted on 08 Oct 2015 09:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat
Data extracted on 08 Oct 2015 09:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat
@nzlabour @NZGreens @OxfamNZ @AmnestyNZ @johnkeyPM asylum seeker intake of Japan, S. Korea and New Zealand since 1987
09 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, population economics, war and peace
When notoriously insular Japan and South Korea overtake New Zealand as a refuge for asylum seekers, the Left of New Zealand politics, which loves to lecture the rest of the world on peace and human rights, clearly dropped the ball as the self-appointed consciences of the nation. Being a nuclear free New Zealand is not a passport to moral superiority in the 21st century.
Source: Data extracted on 08 Oct 2015 09:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat.
The last time a large number of refugees were admitted to New Zealand was under the 1990s National Party government.
US, UK, Germany and New Zealand fertility rates since 1925
09 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, population economics
New Zealand and the USA were much more serious about the post-war baby boom than were the British or Germans. The German fertility rates drop below replacement rates in the late 1960s with the British and Americans following them in in the 1970s. Only New Zealand still has a fertility rate of above replacement or thereabouts. German fertility has struggled to stay above replacement rates for coming on 100 years.
% of population aged 65 and over in English speaking countries since 1970
09 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, population economics
Population ageing seemed to have passed the Irish by until the Global Financial Crisis. The British (in dark blue) started older but really did not have much of an ageing until this squiggly behaviour in the last 10 years in their population data. Canada simply got older. There is a long pause in ageing in the USA but ageing started again apace in the last 10 years. Population ageing in Australia (in light blue) and New Zealand was pretty consistent over the entire period since 1970. Australians and New Zealanders simply got older.
% of Japanese, German and French populations age 65 and over since 1970
09 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, population economics
There are certainly rapid ageing in Japan but the Germans are doing their best to catch up with the French not far behind.
The withering away of unions as a working class movement @nzlabour @FairnessNZ
09 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
@NZNationalParty @nzlabour @NZGreens inflow of asylum seekers into #UK #Canada, #Australia and #NewZealand since 1980
08 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in economic history, Economics of international refugee law, International law, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, population economics Tags: Australia, British politics, economics of migration, refugees
New Zealand’s intake of asylum seekers has been embarrassingly low. The left-wing parties in New Zealand should be ashamed of themselves given the way they wear their international consciences on their sleeves about New Zealand being above it all morally, nuclear free, and can lecture the rest about war, peace and compassion from on high.
Data extracted on 08 Oct 2015 09:06 UTC (GMT) from OECD.Stat; Dataset: International Migration Database.
The UK absorbed an immense number of asylum seekers in the 1990 as did Canada. The data stops in 2013.
Overseas born population of the UK, 2014
07 Oct 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, population economics
New Zealand is a humble 37th in the running. Mind you, the New Zealand resident population of the UK on a per capita basis of the home population and compares well with Canada and Australia are much larger countries such as the Philippines and the USA.
Source: Population by Country of Birth and Nationality Report, August 2015 – ONS.
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