Showing posts with label job market. Show all posts
Showing posts with label job market. Show all posts
Sunday, March 3, 2024

Telephones and telephone operators, as telephone exchanges became automated

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  Earlier experiences in automation may be helpful in thinking about current technologies. Here's a paper about automation that replaced...
Friday, January 26, 2024

The DOJ on competition for workers

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  A lot of market design is done by regulators, and some of that is done to enforce existing laws.  Here's a report from the Department ...
Saturday, December 9, 2023

JOE Job Openings for Economists: 2023 versus the past 4 years

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  Here's t he latest note on the job market from the AEA's  Committee on the Job Market .  It reflects a tight job market (but may a...
Friday, November 3, 2023

Jobs for economists, so far this year

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Here's a preliminary AEA memo on the job market . "To: Members of the American Economic Association  From: AEA Committee on the Job...
Sunday, July 2, 2023

Who marries whom?

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  The Washington Post "Department of Data" presents some census data on who marries whom. What does your job say about whom you’ll...
Friday, June 2, 2023

Dissertation advisors and job market outcomes by Rose and Shekhar

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  Here's a paper on the economics job market, and the influence of dissertation advisers. Adviser Connectedness and Placement Outcomes i...
Saturday, April 15, 2023

Jobs at risk from AI chatbots

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 The WSJ has the alarming news: The Fortune Cookie Industry Is in Upheaval. ‘Expect Big Changes Ahead.’ Factories split over whether to use ...
Friday, March 17, 2023

Talent management in the Marine Corps--lateral entry?

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"Talent management" is making inroads in the armed forces.  One anomaly of military service is that almost all of its personnel en...
Monday, February 27, 2023

AEA committee on the job market considers early and exploding offers

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  John Cawley chairs the AEA committee on the job market, and recently tweeted the request for information below.  Feel free to communicat...
Sunday, February 5, 2023

Advice on dealing with exploding offers in the Economics job market

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  The market for new Economics Ph.D.s is in flux, with interviews this year being conducted remotely by Zoom rather than in person at the an...
Monday, January 9, 2023

Non-compete clauses are anti-competitive: Lina Kahn (FTC chair) in the NYT

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  An op-ed this morning by the chair of the FTC explains her opposition to non-compete clauses in labor contracts (which are already non-enf...
Friday, December 23, 2022

Postdoctoral opportunities in kidney exchange, in the U.K. with David Manlove and Daniel Paulusma

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 David Manlove writes to invite applications for postdocs with him and Daniel Paulusm a to work on kidney exchange. " There are three ...
Monday, November 7, 2022

Stanford Economics Ph.D. Job Market Candidates for the 2022-23 Economics Job Market.

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 22 candidates for the  2022-23 Economics Job Market , from B to Z. Stanford, Department of Economics Job Market Candidates Available Novemb...
Monday, October 24, 2022

Informationally Simple Incentives by Simon Gleyze and Agathe Pernoud

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  Agathe Pernoud  is on the Economics job market from Stanford this year, and is interested in the properties of information in environments...
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Where do professors come from?

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  A news article in Nature summarizes two research articles into the makeup of the American professoriate.  Professors tend to have gotten t...
Monday, September 26, 2022

Job swaps in the Air Force

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  Here's the story, from Air and Space Forces Magazine: Bass Announces Changes to Assignment Policies—Including Job Swaps Sept. 21, 202...
Saturday, September 3, 2022

Further unraveling of law firm offers to (first year) law students, and offers to new (first week) bankers from private equity

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Eric Budish writes with a pointer to a Business Insider story on the current unraveling of the market for new lawyers and big law firms. Ins...
Sunday, August 7, 2022

Jobs and spouses in Denmark

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  Matching is both consequential and difficult : it is how we sort into jobs and careers, and marriages and families.  Here's a paper th...
Tuesday, August 2, 2022

American Finance Association guidelines to prevent unravelling of the job market

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 Zoom is changing interview practices, and there's concern that academic markets for new Ph.D grads could unravel. The AFA is on the cas...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

The (local) labor markets for terrorists and drug traffickers

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  It's so hard to hire good help nowadays, but two papers in the latest Econometrica give us some insight into how that problem is solv...