Source: Terence Corcoran: Liberal Budget; Donald Trump Demagoguery | Financial Post.
The top 1% gave Canadian women a pass on real wage stagnation too
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There are three countries in the world where your boss is more likely to be a woman
06 May 2016 Leave a comment
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The share of women who have earned a college degree
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Field of study by gender across the OECD
19 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
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Gender differences in PISA scores for science across the OECD
06 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
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Source: OECD Family Database – OECD.
Scandinavian girls are better than boys at maths: gender differences in PISA scores in maths across the OECD, 2012
05 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
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Source: OECD Family Database – OECD.
No asymmetric marriage premium in commuting: the family commuting gap for mothers and fathers travelling to and from work by school age of child in the UK, Germany, France and Italy
04 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economics of love and marriage, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, transport economics, urban economics Tags: asymmetric marriage premium, commuting times, gender wage gap, reversing gender gap
Few labour market statistics have any meaning unless broken down by gender. The compensating differentials that explain much of the family pay gap extend strongly to commuting times.
Source: OECD Family Database – OECD, Table LMF2.6.A.
Mothers commute a good 15 to 20 minutes less than fathers in the UK, Italy, Germany and France. Single women commute 5 to 10 minutes further than mothers. Single men and fathers commute much the same distance.
Change in teenage boys’ PISA reading score since 2000 across the OECD area
04 Feb 2016 Leave a comment
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The reverse gender gap in commuting times across the OECD @JulieAnneGenter
31 Jan 2016 2 Comments
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, transport economics, urban economics Tags: commuting times, compensating differentials, gender wage gap, reversing gender gap
Commuting times need to be incorporated into calculations of the gender wage gap because they do represent a serious fixed cost of working that is higher for men than for women.
Source: OECD Family Database.
Not only is the commuting time for female workers less, there is much less variation across the OECD member countries than for men.
The figures for New Zealand are so low that they are suspicious.
Percentage of American men and women aged 25 to 29 with bachelors degree or higher, 1971 – 2013
13 Jan 2016 1 Comment
in discrimination, economic history, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics Tags: College premium, education premium, graduate premium, reversing gender gap
The gender gap in higher education reversed in the year 2000
More on the reversing gender pay gap or men getting their comeuppances?
10 Jan 2016 Leave a comment
in discrimination, economic history, gender, human capital, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA Tags: gender wage gap, middle class stagnation, reversing gender gap, wage stagnation
The reversing gender gap in marathon completion
28 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
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Are women just too smart to be computer scientists?
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in applied price theory, discrimination, economics of education, gender, human capital, labour economics, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA Tags: economics of personality traits, gender wage gap, reversing gender gap
Women started drifting away from computer science in the mid-1980s. The interpretation put forward by the professional grievance industry, that is, by National Public Radio in the USA is:
The share of women in computer science started falling at roughly the same moment when personal computers started showing up in U.S. homes in significant numbers.
These early personal computers weren’t much more than toys. You could play pong or simple shooting games, maybe do some word processing.
And these toys were marketed almost entirely to men and boys. This idea that computers are for boys became a narrative. It became the story we told ourselves about the computing revolution. It helped define who geeks were, and it created techie culture.
Source: NPR
Another interpretation is there are systematic differences between teenage boys and teenage girls in verbal and written skills. Young women moved away from enrolling in computer…
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The gender gap in workplace fatalities
06 Dec 2015 Leave a comment
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New Zealand gender wage gap for full-time workers and for part-time workers, 2015
10 Nov 2015 Leave a comment
in discrimination, gender, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - New Zealand Tags: gender wage gap, part-time work, reversing gender gap
The unadjusted gender wage gap is regarded as a reliable measure of sex discrimination in these day, apparently, because the adjusted wage gap is too small to maintain the rage. In the data below, the gender wage gap is in favour of women. That is an unreliable unadjusted gender wage because many part-time male workers are teenagers. Many part-time female workers are professionals.
Source: Statistics New Zealand, New Zealand Income Survey, June quarter 2015
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