How Has the Gender Earnings Gap in Ireland Changed in Thirty Years?

How has publishing changed in the last twenty years?

It is useful to consider the trajectory of both scientific and literary publishing on the gridgroup plane defined by Mary Douglas which arranges attitudes along two axes: one ranging from the hierarchical to the egalitarian, and the other spanning individualistic to communitarian (figure 1). I would contend that, in both cases, there has been a move from the hierarchical/communitarian quadrant ...

The Gender Earnings Gap in Britain

The Gender Earnings Gap in Britain The earnings gap between male and female employees is substantial and persistent. Using new data for Britain, this paper shows that an important contribution to this gap is made by the workplace in which the employee works. Evidence for workplace and occupational segregation as partial explanations of the earnings gap is presented. Having allowed also for indi...

Has Scientific Communication Changed in 300 Years?

In a recent editorial I discussed the future of scientific publication. 1 I mentioned Joshua Lederberg’s EUGRAM— the process of sending messages and “publishing” papers via computer terminals. z While Lederberg’s preview of the future may cause some readers “future shock, ” I wondered how much different publication will be in 2001 than it was 300 years ago. Although the technology of producing ...

A thirty-year perspective on personhood: how has the debate changed?

The Gender Gap Between Earnings Distributions

This paper provides an examination of the notion of “distance” and ordering between the whole distributions of earnings for men and women, and some related counterfactuals. We investigate aggregative measures and their statistical implementation and evaluation. We provide a synthesis of the decisiontheoretic basis of measures for such things as the “gender gap”. “Strong” comparison/ordering of ...