Wharton's Katherine Klein has a nice literature review up on the effects of corporate boardroom gender diversity . The bottom line see...

Today's reader mailbag brings a few excellent points on the government's pay equity deal for homecare workers. I think your discu...

I went through the government's proposed pay equity legislation in last week's NBR and in The Initiative's Insights newsletter...

Our excellent Research Fellow Dr Rachel Hodder warns about potential legal nightmares in the government's proposed pay equity framewor...

New Zealand may be heading toward 1988-Ontario-style Pay Equity rules. Here's The Herald's summary : The changes will mean empl...

The Herald's reporting on a new tool they've produced to investigate the gender wage gap. Enter your broad age and profession (AN...

Here's Treasury Secretary Gabriel Makhlouf in The NBR : The business case for diversity in the workplace is clear. In the case of gend...

I had a look at the latest numbers over at The Initiative's blog : Last week’s  New Zealand Income Survey  sure led to a lot of headl...

In a new audit study, male economists are the only ones who came out as gender-blind in hiring preferences. The underrepresentation of wom...

Things we didn't know before the latest set of Treasury working papers came out: Income mobility in NZ is high : From one year to the...

From my piece with Bryce Wilkinson in last week's National Business Review: Suppose a management consultant pulled you aside and said...

The NZ EEO Commissioner, Jackie Blue, is unhappy about the gender wage gap in the public service . The woman in charge of equal employmen...

Overshadowed (predictably) by Lorde's Grammy wins was Labour's policy announcement. Should Labour form government, they'd like t...

Matt Yglesias makes the case that, in a world in which workers are not interchangeable widgets, compulsory jury duty places an unreasonable ...

First, a short summary on the gender wage gap. Men on average earn more than women. When we correct for differences in education, work exper...

Another for the "the gender wage gap has less to do with sexist employers and more to do with productivity characteristics" file: ...

One potential explanation for lower female wages: employers fear that female employees will take maternity leave and condition wage and empl...

My colleague Andrea Menclova responds to some of the recent foofarah about the latest data on the male-female wage gap in New Zealand. From ...

Put yourself in the place of an employer faced with two excellent and similarly qualified candidates for a position. You'd be very happy...