Trump cheats at golf - the ONE and ONLY politics thread

Describe an apples-to-apples comparison.

Same education? Same experience? Same workload?

There's almost no such thing.

We see a large gap in pay between the "average" male vs. "average" female.

Activists don't even try to make an issue out of apples-to-apples comparisons, because there isn't an issue to make.

 

Tips are usually pooled. You turn them in, and get them back in your paycheck, with taxes withheld.

 

You're under arrest, sir. Aiding and abetting.

 

Making an apples-to-apples comparison is very challenging, but June and David O'Neill have done some of the best work in that regard. They've decomposed the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) and found that, when you control for things like career choice, time spent in the workforce, etc., you see almost all of the wage gap disappear (you wind up with women earning something like 95 to 96 cents on the dollar). Indeed, for men and women just starting out, apples-to-apples comparisons show women earning more than men. Perhaps that 4% to 5% gap that ultimately obtains is the result of discrimination, but it's also possible (indeed, probable) that it's just the result of a not-quite-apples-to-apples comparison being made.

 

So no single waitress is screwed by the occasional deadbeat or rewarded with the occasional story of generosity I see in my Facebook news feed? Learn something new every day.

 

So my betting site has Hillary -800 for the Democratic nomination right now. That seems like stealing money, right? Bernie is at +450. Republicans Trump -200, Cruz +150, Kasich +600, Romney +9000.

Proud to say I got money down on Cruz when he was at +350 and Kasich at +3500.

 

Yeah, but you needed only two bennies to get those down. You'll need to pull eight out to take that Hillary action. Don't know about your household, but in mine such a move would be found to be ... distasteful.

 

I'm pretty sure a lot of larger companies are doing equal pay audits and many have found gaps they're addressing.

 

Interesting. I'm too lazy to look it up right now, but if I get a chance to later, I will. Do you have a link to any of their research to save me a step?

 

So, no?

 

There's a working paper on the website of the National Bureau of Economic Research (Baron shudders), but I think they turned that into a book rather than an actual published paper. I don't know of any other similar studies (supporting or contradicting).