ICT, factor shares, employment, and inequality
I am going to take you on a journey of a series of fortunate events, and at the end hopefully I have a point! The journey is below the flap …
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Author Archive for: Matt Nolan
Entries by Matt Nolan
Policy and heterogeneity: A point
Via Geoff Simmons came this interesting post about new health policy in New Zealand. This isn’t my area of expertise, but I found the post really insightful – I’d definitely recommend it as a read. However, a small part of the post did spark my imagination, and will lead me to write on a loosely […]
Discussion Tuesday
A double-barrelled one today. Once again, remember that these are points for discussion – I am not saying I agree or disagree with them. Other people both have more differences, and are more similar, to us than we assume they are when making day to day choices, judgements, and decisions. Ultimately people are more complex […]
Are we all confusing status competition and ‘inequality’: Short answer, yes
The authors of the Spirit Level have done a piece on the relationship between inequality and negative outcomes here. Now I’ve previously strongly disagreed with the Spirit Level here. However, I feel that I can discuss this specific post separately – I feel that it is clear and more focused than the book. I am […]
In defence of the RBNZ’s upcoming hike
Although I no longer have the time to keep up with the literature on financial stability policy (and so am not commenting on it – this is due to my switch to detail income data analysis), I still spend a bunch of time looking at the national economy and monetary policy. I see that a […]
Expanding on the idea of “more competition in the services sector”
We’ve established in the past that, when looking at productivity, it is important to answer questions about “why” productivity is doing what it is doing and why we care. Having accepted that there are industry specific differences in productivity between New Zealand and Australia (a relatively comparable nation), the Productivity Commission has been focused on […]