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
Celebrating Ecuador’s Dollarization
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Lawrence Reed in this piece writes on benefits of Ecuador Dollarisation:
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Equal opportunity programs are the real driver of the academic gender wage gap
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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
A fair summary by Dube; note repeated reference to modest increases. This can be offset by diluting service quality and staffing levels and hours such as in old age care studies
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, labour economics, minimum wage Tags: offsetting behaviour, The fatal conceit, unintended consequences
The Great Fact @oxfam @greenpeace
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in development economics, economic history, growth disasters, growth miracles Tags: child mortality, extreme poverty, infant mortality, pessimism bias, The Great Enrichment
Ben Vollaard on an unusually personalised habitual offender law @sst_nz @NZJusticeIdeas
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in applied price theory, econometerics, economics of crime, labour economics, labour supply, law and economics, occupational choice Tags: crime and punishment, criminal deterrence, law and order
The British Will Walk 500 Miles, and They Will Walk 500 more – WW2 – 078 – February 22, 1941
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in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
Shell’s New Battery Won’t Solve Wind Intermittency Problem
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Shell’s new shiny battery will only be able to replace wind output for less than a minute, if the wind stopped blowing.
The Forstater Employment Tribunal judgment: a critical appraisal in light of Miller – by Karon Monaghan
23 Feb 2020 Leave a comment
There are several problems with the judgment in Forstater v CGD Europe and Ors (case no 2200909/2019) (“Forstater”). Some of these have been highlighted by Amir Paz-Fuch in his recent analysis on this blog, ‘Principles into Practice: Protecting Offensive Beliefs in the Workplace’. In this blog post, I look more at the specific findings of the Employment Tribunal and whether they are sustainable. I shall consider this issue in light, in particular, of the holdings of the High Court in R(Miller) v College of Policing and A’or[2020] EWHC 225 (Admin).
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In analysing the judgment in Forstater, it is important to identify first what the Employment Tribunal Judge was required to decide. The Claimant’s (“C”) claim had been listed to determine the answer to a single question: whether the beliefs relied upon by C (in support of…
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