Showing posts with label job market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label job market. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 21, 2026

How will the Army build AI and robotics expertise in uniform?

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 The US armed services have an unusual labor market.  Most soldiers, sailers, airmen and now space forcers join the military pretty much rig...
Tuesday, January 20, 2026

The job market for economists, 2026

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 The WSJ has the story: Economists Are Studying the Slowing Job Market—and Feeling It Themselves Newly minted Ph.D.s tend to work for univer...
Monday, December 29, 2025

Medicare funding of medical residencies

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 I'm always puzzled by the fact that much of the discussion of the wages of medical residents ignores that many residency positions are ...
Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Erik Brynjolfsson interviewed in Newsweek

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 Always thought provoking:  Centaurs, Canaries and J-Curves: Pitfalls and Productivity Potential of AI By Marcus Weldon  "Brynjolfsson ...
Monday, December 22, 2025

Which trade organization is protecting its members from a real threat from AI?

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Science fiction writers have long speculated on worlds in which humans coexist with intelligent robots. And forewarned is forearmed. The  Sc...
Wednesday, December 3, 2025

AEA Survey of hiring plans of U.S. Economics Departments (and an unrelated unprecedented AEA announcement about Larry Summers)

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 Here's the latest survey of the job market for new PhD economists: To: Members of the American Economic Association From: AEA Committee...
Thursday, November 27, 2025

Congestion and signaling in the job market, as the ratio of applications to positions continues to rise

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 Aki Ito, at Business Insider, writes about how the number of job applications per position is growing, and how there's some exploratory...
Monday, November 17, 2025

Physicians are now more likely employed than in private practice, and AMA membership has correspondingly declined

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  Medpage Today has the story: Medical Societies Are Facing an Existential Crisis — It's time to adapt to the employed physician era by ...
Friday, October 10, 2025

Job market advice for new Ph.D. economists, from John Cawley

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 From applying for jobs, to signaling for interviews,  through interviews, flyouts, offers and the scramble, John Cawley, the chair of the A...
Sunday, September 28, 2025

Remote work and reproduction

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 Here's a recent paper indicating that work from home (WFH) may increase fertility, particularly when both partners in a household work ...
Friday, September 12, 2025

Congestion in the job market, AI version

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  The Atlantic has this story on the job market, that contains a nice line... The Job Market Is Hell .  Young people are using ChatGPT to wr...
Monday, August 18, 2025

Congestion in online labor markets: too many applications

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 As online job ads make it easier to submit chatbot-assisted applications, companies are becoming overwhelmed. The WSJ has this story: How t...
Friday, May 30, 2025

American doctors moving to Canada

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 Many Canadian doctors practice in the U.S., where pay is generally higher and they may have more access to high tech imaging and other medi...
Saturday, March 29, 2025

Healthcare as a modern jobs engine, by Gottlieb, Mahoney, Rinz and Udalova

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Here's a paper with cheerful results about employment and wages in health care. Rise of Healthcare Jobs   by Joshua D. Gottlieb, Neale M...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Will artificial intelligence disrupt labor markets as much as electricity and computers have?

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 Here's a paper that takes a long view of American occupations (and concludes that it's too early to tell about ai...) TECHNOLOGICAL...