SuperFreakonomics Book Club: Goldin and Katz on the Male-Female Wage Gap
…questioning for Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, labor economists and experts on the male-female wage gap. Their response is below. Big thanks to them and to all of you for…
…questioning for Claudia Goldin and Lawrence Katz, labor economists and experts on the male-female wage gap. Their response is below. Big thanks to them and to all of you for…
…applicants’ wage at their previous job against the wage they were seeking. Here’s the abstract: The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most…
…the male-female wage differential, it is desire – or the lack thereof – that accounts for most of the wage gap. The economists identified three main factors: Women have slightly…
…Nobel Prize in Economics. Steve spoke to her in 2021 about how inflexible jobs and family responsibilities make it harder for women to earn wages equal to their male counterparts….
(Photo: Amber McNamara) The male-female wage gap narrowed considerably during the 1980s and 1990s, thanks to increased educational attainment among women and an influx of women into high-earning fields. Factors…
…he recently signed two executive orders aimed at closing the gap. Business Insider recently posted a state-by-state breakdown of the gender wage gap. It is interesting to look at but…
Backers of a $15 federal wage say it’s a no-brainer if you want to fight poverty. Critics say it’s a blunt instrument that leads to job loss. Even the economists…
…she wrote in to say about our analysis of the persistent female-male wage gap: Agreed with all you wrote about wage gaps between women and men. Why yes, women do…
The gig economy offers the ultimate flexibility to set your own hours. That’s why economists thought it would help eliminate the gender pay gap. A new study, using data from…
Doctors and nurses get most of the attention — but a new study suggests we can improve health care by raising wages for a group of workers who are often…
Discrimination can’t explain why women earn so much less than men. If only it were that easy.
Claudia Goldin is the newest winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. We spoke with her in 2016 about why women earn so much less than men — and how…
Harvard economist Claudia Goldin and Steve talk about how inflexible jobs and family responsibilities make it harder for women to earn wages equal to their male counterparts. But could Covid…
The racial wealth gap in the U.S. is massive. We explore the causes, consequences and potential solutions. Also: another story of discrimination and economic disparity, this one perpetrated by an…
Smart government policies, good industrial relations, and high-end products have helped German manufacturing beat back the threats of globalization.
…gender gap being much more pronounced in jobs that leave negotiation of wage ambiguous. List and Leibbrandt conclude that: “[B]y merely adding the information that the wage is ‘negotiable’ we…
…explanation of the book’s title and possible solutions to the wage gap. Thanks to everyone for playing along, and especially to Rosin for fielding so many of your good questions….
…are today. They can. And rather than attacking the gaps poor students bring with them when they first arrive at school, we actually exacerbate gaps by giving the least to…
It’s true that robots (and other smart technologies) will kill many jobs. It may also be true that newer collaborative robots (“cobots”) will totally reinvigorate how work gets done. That,…
…are all categories and many well-reviewed women that don’t have “ideal” bodies. Q. Do you think women turn to prostitution as a result of the male-female wage gap that SuperFreakonomics…
(Photo: Michael Neubert) We’ve blogged before about gender inequality and the persistent male/female wage gap. A new working paper by Jennifer Hunt, Jean-Philippe Garant, Hannah Herman, and David J. Munroe…
…include glowing, hyperbolic terms. Bapu talks about this “groundbreaking” research (see what we did there?) in a wide-ranging discussion with physicians and an economist about the gender gap in medicine….
…president Liz Shuler tries to explain this gap — and persuade Stephen Dubner that “the folks who brought you the weekend” still have the leverage to fix a broken economy….
When small businesses get bought by big investors, the name may stay the same — but customers and employees can feel the difference. (Part 2 of 2.)…
It’s an acutely haphazard way of paying workers, and yet it keeps expanding. We dig into the data to find out why.
…the dead middle, or the 50th percentile, of the white income spectrum. The income gap hasn’t shrunk much, but the happiness gap has.” In fact, the rise in the happiness…
New research finds that bosses who went to business school pay their workers less. So what are M.B.A. programs teaching — and should they stop?…
(Photo: Ged Carroll) We’ve written before about Claudia Goldin and Larry Katz‘s research on the persistent gender wage gap in the U.S. Now Goldin and Katz are back with a…
Could a lack of sleep help explain why some people get much sicker than others?
Could a lack of sleep help explain why some people get much sicker than others?
