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  The Chronicle: Career Network: 01/05/2001   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Economics may be known as "the dismal science," but the job market for economists is anything but dismal.
The academic job market for economists is further strengthened by the high demand for Ph.D.'s in departments other than economics, says Edward A. Miguel, an assistant professor of economics at the University of California at Berkeley.
Andrew McLennan, a professor of economics and director of graduate studies in the economics department at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, notes that of the 20 or so people admitted to his program each year, only one to three of them were Americans in recent years.
chronicle.com /jobs/2001/01/2001010503c.htm   (1296 words)

  
 Economists
Presenting economic and statistical concepts in a clear and meaningful way is particularly important for economists whose research is directed toward making policies for an organization.
These models help to explain economic relationships and are used to develop forecasts related to the nature and length of business cycles, the effects of a specific rate of inflation on the economy, the effects of tax legislation on unemployment levels, and other economic phenomena.
A greater need for economic analyses in virtually every industry could result in additional jobs for economists, although some corporations are eliminating some or all of their economist positions in favor of hiring economic consultants.
stats.bls.gov /oco/ocos055.htm   (2217 words)

  
 WebEc - General Economics Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Economics Departments with Ph.D. Programs in American and Canadian Universities (Including Agricultural Economics) is a list based on "Peterson's Guide to Graduate Education".
Economics Working Papers Archive is devoted to the free distribution of working papers in economics.
The Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel is awarded by Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.
www.helsinki.fi /WebEc/webeca1.html   (1034 words)

  
 South-Western: The Economics Degree
Economics is defined as the study of how people choose to use their scarce resources in an attempt to satisfy their unlimited wants.
The JOE is provided jointly by the American Economic Association and the Economics Department of the University of Texas at Austin.
American Economic Review--The American Economics Association also publishes this journal and, while many of the articles are beyond the scope of the introductory student, some articles, especially those taken from the annual meeting of the Association, are fairly accessible.
www.swlearning.com /economics/career_resources_degree.html   (2132 words)

  
 Brown County Job Center Labor Market/Economics Links Page
Economics at About.com Website for Economics students at University of Rochester to download course materials and interact with each other and their instructors through a message board.
Econdata A guide to regional economic activity with 1,000 links to socioeconomic data sources, arranged by subject and provider, pointers to the Web's premiere data collections, and their own list of the ten best sites for finding regional economic data.
North Star Economics NorthStar Economics is an economic consulting and research firm located in the MG&E Innovation Center in the University of Wisconsin Research Park in Madison, Wisconsin.
www.new-jobcenter.org /bcjceconpage.htm   (1444 words)

  
 Job evaluation (from labour economics) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Labour economics involves the study of the factors affecting the efficiency of these workers, their deployment between different industries...
In the 19th century economics was the hobby of gentlemen of leisure and the vocation of a few academics; economists wrote about economic policy but were rarely consulted by legislators before decisions were made.
He also called economics the “dismal science” because the matters it deals with at such length are so ordinary.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-66916?tocId=66916   (816 words)

  
 QM&RBC Jobs
The job matching process for academic positions in Economics is becoming more and more arduous.
Job Openings for Economists, from the American Economic Association, but also covering non US positions.
Economics Ph.D. Job Candidates, by School (by John Patty, Caltech)
dge.repec.org /jobs.html   (232 words)

  
 UNCW Student Affairs: Career Services
Economics is the study of how effectively society meets its human and material needs.
As a result, economics is widely recognized as a solid background for many jobs and professions in business, government, and the law.
This means that college graduates use their education in a wide variety of fields, and your future career may relate as much to your personal career interests, work values and transferable skills as your specific academic major.
www.uncwil.edu /stuaff/career/Majors/economics.htm   (352 words)

  
 CSC - Major Resource Kit - Economics
In broad terms, economics is the study of mankind's efforts to obtain the goods and services required for survival, for reasonable comfort and, when possible, for affluence.
Economics is a social science focusing on the economic well-being of society.
Economics majors seeking employment immediately after college generally choose jobs in management, insurance, real estate, financial analysis, computing systems, consulting, banking, sales and public administration.
www.udel.edu /CSC/econ.html   (496 words)

  
 ERI Salary Survey
Compensation data includes geographic salaries for 88 benchmark jobs; cost-of-living and salary comparison data for 298 cities in the US and Canada; workforce and employment statistics; local health care costs, housing costs, and tax rates; and per diem rates.
Job analysis work fields, skills, MSPMS, and worker specific occupational characteristics (including new stress measures) have been added, updated, and/or enhanced from the original US Dictionary of Occupational Titles.
Human Resource and vocational rehabilitation professionals utilize this job analysis software to find employment opportunities for individuals based on their work experience, education, interests, and physical/mental/emotional limitations.
www.erieri.com   (797 words)

  
 "Working Your Degree:" Economics - Aug. 18, 2000
Those who focus their economics degree on agriculture also find high level job opportunities at national grocery stores as product buyers, and other retail outlets.
Job opportunities for economists are projected to grow between 10 percent and 20 percent through 2008, on par with the national average for all occupations, the BLS reports.
$20,600 to $25,500 in 1999 for grads with an economics bachelor's degree.
money.cnn.com /2000/08/18/career/q_degreeeconomics   (1208 words)

  
 Job Prospects Promising in Agriculture, Home Economics
In fact, a national report shows nearly a 5 percent shortfall of qualified applicants for jobs in food and agricultural sciences, a trend expected to continue at least through the year 2000.
Economics, mathematics/statistics and business/management rounded out the list of most valuable bachelor's degrees.
In spite of that good news, the job market is expected to be among the toughest in 20 years.
www.cahe.nmsu.edu /news/1996/042596_agjobs.html   (313 words)

  
 Economics Job Opening
Hard-working but considered untrustworthy job because everyone the care economics job opening of year before construction.
In economics job opening prayer to educational and research friend from kindergarten.
Stations were Job Listings For the City of Farmington available the sources consulted.
www.nissat.org /job/economics_job_opening.html   (744 words)

  
 The Internet Site for Economists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Ruhr Graduate School in Economics (RGS Econ) awards a prize of 1.500 EUR for an outstanding research paper in a relevant field of modern economics.
Inomics is a platform to announce job openings for economists, to search for them, and to get an email notification whenever a new opening meeting your interests arrives.
RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of over 100 volunteers in 30 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics.
www.inomics.com   (429 words)

  
 Department of Economics
Department of Economics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Welcome to the Department of Economics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Job market candidate information for the 2005-2006 academic year will be available in October.
www.economics.uiuc.edu   (145 words)

  
 SSRC :: Applied Economics Program :: Resources for Graduate Students
The RAND Summer Institute (RSI) on the Demography, Economics, and Epidemiology of Aging is an annual conference that addresses critical issues facing our aging population, which serves as a vehicle to provide additional training to researchers new to the field of aging.
Junior faculty, post-doctoral fellows, pre-doctoral candidates who have successfully defended their dissertation proposals, and senior researchers who are new to the field of aging are eligible.
Globalmetrix is a fully integrated, worldwide economic database linking trade, industrial production, employment, wages and prices into a seamless, internally consistent, global system of data and forecasts.
www.ssrc.org /programs/app_econ/resources_for_graduate_students   (1018 words)

  
 Al Roth's game theory and experimental economics page
Job market candidates: Some of my students, postdocs, and research associates who are on the job market this year.
Experimental Economics Laboratory at McMaster University is directed by Stuart Mestelman and Andrew Muller.
The Centre for Experimental Economics at the University of York.
kuznets.fas.harvard.edu /~aroth/alroth.html   (7815 words)

  
 Jobs in the Social Science Fields: The Riley Guide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Job seekers must register a resume here in order to apply online for positions, but many listings I checked included phone and fax numbers for the hiring contact.
Jobs can be listed for as long as 6 months, so you may want to check that an older position is still open before applying.
Jobs cover the occupational spectrum from ministers to writers to business administrators, but all function in the ministry and are in organizations affiliated with various Christian faiths (schools, camps, churches) or target services and resources for this group.
www.rileyguide.com /social.html   (1972 words)

  
 Department of Economics :: Prospective Students :: Job/Grad Placements
A 2003 survey of the alumni of the Department of Economics indicates that our former students go on to jobs in banking, finance, and real estate, government (county, state, federal), consulting firms, education, the energy and telecommunications industries, and the non-profit sector.
A 2003 survey of the alumni of the Department of Economics indicates that 45 percent of our baccaureates go on to graduate or professional school.
The growing need for economic analyses in virtually every industry should result in additional jobs for economists.
www.humboldt.edu /~econ/students/outlook.html   (336 words)

  
 BU | Economics
You are encouraged to send job notices or suggestions to the job placement officer (ellisrp@bu.edu) to be posted here.
A Professor in Health Economics is vacant at the Department of Economics at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Bergen.
Fellows are expected to apply their core research skills in the areas of economics, public health, health policy, demography, and related fields with the expectation that they will make important research contributions for future international health policy.
www.bu.edu /econ/phd/news   (6149 words)

  
 University of Chicago: Department of Economics
Job market candidates from the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago
Many of these students also have a separate home page on which you may find a copy of their job market paper, curriculum vitae, and an abstract for the dissertation, all in either.pdf or.ps format, which require Adobe Acrobat Reader.
To inform the Department about a job opening, internship or another available professional opportunity for graduate students, please contact Julie Less.
economics.uchicago.edu /graduate_jobmarket.shtml   (484 words)

  
 CSULB Online 49er: v10n81: Current economics affect job market
The economic downturn in the United States has created a tough environment for job finders even though Southern California has better conditions than the rest of the country.
However, she is optimistic and believes job opportunities will begin to increase for the technology field over the next year.
Attending the Job Fair is still a good way for students to be exposed to job opportunities.
www.csulb.edu /~d49er/archives/2003/spring/news/v10n81-cur.shtml   (526 words)

  
 Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Economics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Council of Economic Advisers - A three member council that analyzes and interprets economic developments and advises the President of the United States on national economic policy.
Economical Links - A search engine for working papers in economics plus links to sites related to economics and finance.
Economics in the news - Provides links to hundreds of articles appearing in the popular press and relating economics to everyday life.
dmoz.org /Science/Social_Sciences/Economics   (711 words)

  
 Economics Internships - Careers in Economics - Economics Major - Hollins University
By exploring economic theories that help explain human behavior, Hollins students learn to develop their own arguments and to evaluate their own values regarding the issues discussed in class.
The strength of the Hollins economics program is demonstrated by the fact that so many of our graduates go on to high-level careers in management and finance and are accepted into the business or graduate schools of their choice.
Our graduates say the combination of a strong liberal arts education and a comprehensive understanding of economics, business-related areas, and research methodology gives them both the knowledge and the skills needed to succeed in a competitive job market.
www.hollins.edu /undergrad/economics/econ.htm   (456 words)

  
 JobWatch
There is, however, some good news on the occupational front as employment levels in some computer related fields, such as computer support specialists, are on the rise.
Following the early 1990s jobless recovery, a strong economic expansion took hold in the mid-1990s, when overall employment growth was sustained and robust.
The private-sector employment trough occurred in June 2003; at that time employment from peak (March 2001) was down by almost 3% or 3.3 million jobs.
www.jobwatch.org   (790 words)

  
 Chicago Finance In Job   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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www.financing.business-info-center.info /business/chicago-finance-in-job.html   (214 words)

  
 Job: Forest Management/Economics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Further information about the job can be attained from Dr. Munn, listed at the bottom of the annoucement, or from myself at: sroberts@cfr.msstate.edu (Scott Roberts) POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT Assistant Professor/Assistant Forester Department of Forestry and Forest and Wildlife Research Center Mississippi State University Position: Full-time, continuing, tenure-track.
Requirements: Ph.D. in land use planning, forest management, forest economics, or a closely related field, with at least one degree, preferably the baccalaureate, from an accredited professional forestry school.
Demonstrated competence in land use planning, management, economics, or operations research with emphasis on their relationships to forest land is essential.
www.metla.fi /archive/forest/1996/04/msg00095.html   (272 words)

  
 UK Job: Economics/Business Studies Teacher - London jobs in Secondary, Teaching - UK Employment
This job has expired and might no longer be relevant.
We recommend you conduct a job search or browse other Secondary jobs.
The person appointed will have the opportunity to teach Economics and Business Studies at GCSE and A Level and to contribute to the vocational programme in the Sixth Form.
www.workgateways.com /Job.879   (201 words)

  
 Tim Worstall: Economics and Job Creation.
One of the ideas that gets horribly misunderstood in economics is that "job creation" is in itself a good thing.
Personal favorites: How well-meaning people can make unacceptably bad economic recommendations, how to apply maximin thinking to small business, and a debunking of the jobs myth (that job creation is the end-all-be-all of economic growth).
Maybe it's because 6 billion tasks is not the same as 6 billion jobs which pay enough to satisfy the needs/wants of a human being and unemployable who are dependent on her.
timworstall.typepad.com /timworstall/2004/11/economics_and_j.html   (721 words)

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