Economist on "Noah Smith thinks minimum wages can increase employment"
Minimum wages directly counteract the tendency of powerful employers to set wages inefficiently low — which is why modest minimum wages can even raise employment levels in some cases.
View ArticleEconomist on "How to get a job a bank of canada"
Non-canadian, US MRM phd. Any suggestion? Should i apply for pr?
View ArticleEconomist on "If you were another person, would you date your economist self?"
Given your domain-driven pragmatic approach to life.*Assume no information assymmetry
View ArticleEconomist on "Publishing books on Econ without having published in.."
..peer-to-peerjournals.I met political scientist who was writing her third book — she s three years post PhD — and had only written on paper (her jmp). I don’t understand how it works, how can someone...
View ArticleEconomist on "Since when did Poli Sci become “mathy?”"
Nowadays a paper published in AJPS is pretty similar in both content and style to a paper in AEJ: Micro. I suspect that Poli Sci became mathy only recently after the conquerring of econ to politics...
View ArticleEconomist on "Journal of Gambling Studies"
Any good? Thought the journal was garbage until I saw a lot of people affiliated with good schools (unsurprisingly, many are from University of Nevada) publish there. Has academia gotten this...
View ArticleEconomist on "Reflections of a Former Heckman RA"
I just finished up as one of Jim Heckman's RAs. Given his reputation, I thought that I would share my experience.I knew Heckman's reputation going into the job. So I braced myself for a low quality of...
View ArticleExperimenter on "Stopping by low-ranked job talks on a snowy afternoon"
Which candidate is this, who knows I know he must be low-ranked though For him to give his job talk here The others must've all said noHis little spouse must think it queer To look for jobs with...
View ArticleEconomist on "Research Entertainment REITs"
Does anyone cover this subset of Fenance ?Can't find anything online or reduced information. I will get access to Moody's and Fitch later but my hopes are running low..Thanks
View ArticleEconomist on "Only the good students in my MRM department actually get proper...
The rest are basically on their own, getting vague feedback now and then. Is this common?
View ArticleEconomist on "My dream government placement is at CSIS"
What is your dream government placement, friend?
View ArticleEconomist on "PhD is a joke ass degree"
As an MBA I've always been curious what PhD students do, so I decided to sit in on one of your classes. The experience has convinced me your degree is a total joke.The professor started by writing a...
View ArticleEconomist on "Rumors on Xueming Luo Marketing"
I keep hearing rumors on his data including here and in Marketing confs. What is the actual issue? Why is nobody calling it out openly?
View ArticleEconomist on "Oddly enough, Oliver Hart to publish an antebellum-era erotica...
Oh sad and WOEFUL job market MEET! yOU HOPED to distrakt yerself by reading of strange exploits by HRMS. But you will be a No-RM with no JERB. Get back to WERK, not that your WERK will matter or ever...
View ArticleEconomist on "Full time RA?"
Is there any good university/research institute recruiting full time RA? Any information source?Thx
View ArticleEconomist on "I love writing flowerly manifestos, but my coauthors are squares"
they always make me write in a more boring and professional mannerfml
View ArticleEconomist on "I told a colleague about my new gym idea in a research seminar"
So I had this idea about a gym where people pay a monthly fee to go. Nothing special, right? However, the novel part of my idea is that the gym also requires the customers to pay for every day that...
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