Anti-Dismal

An interesting new twist on the effects of children on the pay gap between men and women. It has long been argued that having kids is one re...

In a recent article at VoxEU.org Marco Francesconi and Matthias Parey write on Early gender gaps among university graduates . A summary of ...

A couple of graphs make this point. and These graphs come from a column at Vox . The column is A stunning chart shows the true cau...

From VoxEU.org comes a column by Anna Stansbury and Lawrence Summers on the relationship between pay and productivity in the US. Since 1...

Claudia Goldin (Professor of Economics at Harvard University) writes, in the New York Times , on How to Win the Battle of the Sexes Over Pay...

In short, big. A new paper just out in the Journal of Political Economy (vol. 125, no. 2, April 2017, pp. 293-337) look at " The Car...

The career dynamics of the gender gap for graduates of the Chicago Business School, as studied by Bertrand, Goldin, and Katz (2010), illust...

At the IEA blog Ryan Bourne writes , ‘On average, women in paid work receive about 18% less per hour than men’. So reads the opening line...

New research suggests that women earn, on average, around 31% less that men in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering or Mathematics) subjec...

Greg Mankiw points us to this paper on CEO pay: Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance in the U.S.: Perceptions, Facts and Chal...

In studies from the U.S. to Sweden, pay discrimination can't explain the disparity between what men and women earn. Women earn less beca...

It is common today for people to note that females are more numerous than males in most levels of education, and that they perform better in...

David Green blogs, at the Telegraph.co.uk , on the controversial topic that The gender pay gap does not exist . Green writes in response to ...

Here is a discussion , by Carol Propper and John Van Reenenof, of a new paper that argues pay regulations can kill . Economists have long wa...

I see that the National Business Review is reporting that Mark Prebble, the State Services Commissioner has announced that he will be leav...