Considerar que la academia y los académicos son irrelevantes para la vida económica, política y social de un país es un tema de mucho tiempo atrás. Este tema lo pone sobre la mesa esta columna para el caso de Estados Unidos. Así empieza:
"SOME of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don’t matter in today’s great debates.
The most stinging dismissal of a point is to say: “That’s academic.” In other words, to be a scholar is, often, to be irrelevant
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Un párrafo interesante
"Many academic disciplines also reduce their influence by neglecting political diversity. Sociology, for example, should be central to so many national issues, but it is so dominated by the left that it is instinctively dismissed by the right.
In contrast, economics is a rare academic field with a significant Republican presence, and that helps tether economic debates to real-world debates. That may be one reason, along with empiricism and rigor, why economists (including my colleague in columny, Paul Krugman) shape debates on issues from health care to education."
Claro que no todos comparten esta visión y aquí hay una respuesta.
En todo caso es un debate amplio y más complejo. Creo que efectivamente hay un desdén hacia la academia y académicos por parte de gobernantes y empresarios, pero también tengo que reconocer que hay grupos de académicos (o seudo académicos) que han contribuido a esto debido a su falta de profesionalismo y de ética y objetividad al realizar su trabajo. Pero el mercado debería ser capaz de diferenciar ¿o a lo mejor pido mucho del mercado?
Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta Mercado Académico. Mostrar todas las entradas
Mostrando entradas con la etiqueta Mercado Académico. Mostrar todas las entradas
domingo, 16 de febrero de 2014
viernes, 29 de noviembre de 2013
¿Funcionan los Incentivos Económicos en la Academia Mexicana?
En las últimas décadas se han desarrollado diversos programas de incentivos económicos para los académicos en México, siendo el SNI el más conocido. Les comparto este análisis de Galaz y Gil Antón que tiene algunas ideas con las que estoy de acuerdo pero otras creo que no son muy adecuadas o al menos hay que discutirlas más. Aún así, con todo incentivos los sueldos siguen siendo poco competitivos con el mercado laboral.
miércoles, 3 de abril de 2013
¿Doctorados Inútiles?
Bueno, The economist tiene ste artículo que seguramente no les gustará a muchos de mis colegas, ex estudiantes y estudiantes..... Por supuesto, es una opinión que no necesariamente tiene que ser compartida por todos, aunque hay que reconocer que varios de sus comentarios no están lejos de una "triste?" realidad
The disposable academic
Algunos párrafos para que se animen a leerlo todo
One thing many PhD students have in common is dissatisfaction. Some describe their work as “slave labour”. Seven-day weeks, ten-hour days, low pay and uncertain prospects are widespread. You know you are a graduate student, goes one quip, when your office is better decorated than your home and you have a favourite flavour of instant noodle. “It isn't graduate school itself that is discouraging,” says one student, who confesses to rather enjoying the hunt for free pizza. “What's discouraging is realising the end point has been yanked out of reach.”
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The interests of academics and universities on the one hand and PhD students on the other are not well aligned. The more bright students stay at universities, the better it is for academics. Postgraduate students bring in grants and beef up their supervisors' publication records. Academics pick bright undergraduate students and groom them as potential graduate students. It isn't in their interests to turn the smart kids away, at least at the beginning. One female student spoke of being told of glowing opportunities at the outset, but after seven years of hard slog she was fobbed off with a joke about finding a rich husband.
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Many of those who embark on a PhD are the smartest in their class and will have been the best at everything they have done. They will have amassed awards and prizes. As this year's new crop of graduate students bounce into their research, few will be willing to accept that the system they are entering could be designed for the benefit of others, that even hard work and brilliance may well not be enough to succeed, and that they would be better off doing something else. They might use their research skills to look harder at the lot of the disposable academic. Someone should write a thesis about that.
The disposable academic
Algunos párrafos para que se animen a leerlo todo
One thing many PhD students have in common is dissatisfaction. Some describe their work as “slave labour”. Seven-day weeks, ten-hour days, low pay and uncertain prospects are widespread. You know you are a graduate student, goes one quip, when your office is better decorated than your home and you have a favourite flavour of instant noodle. “It isn't graduate school itself that is discouraging,” says one student, who confesses to rather enjoying the hunt for free pizza. “What's discouraging is realising the end point has been yanked out of reach.”
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The interests of academics and universities on the one hand and PhD students on the other are not well aligned. The more bright students stay at universities, the better it is for academics. Postgraduate students bring in grants and beef up their supervisors' publication records. Academics pick bright undergraduate students and groom them as potential graduate students. It isn't in their interests to turn the smart kids away, at least at the beginning. One female student spoke of being told of glowing opportunities at the outset, but after seven years of hard slog she was fobbed off with a joke about finding a rich husband.
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Many of those who embark on a PhD are the smartest in their class and will have been the best at everything they have done. They will have amassed awards and prizes. As this year's new crop of graduate students bounce into their research, few will be willing to accept that the system they are entering could be designed for the benefit of others, that even hard work and brilliance may well not be enough to succeed, and that they would be better off doing something else. They might use their research skills to look harder at the lot of the disposable academic. Someone should write a thesis about that.
domingo, 3 de marzo de 2013
¿Conviene Trabajar Antes de Estudiar el Posgrado?
Ésta es una pregunta que de manera recurrente me realizan mis alumnos que están por terminar sus estudios de licenciatura. Ahora encuentro que Mankiw ha posteado con una respuesta similar a la que normalmente doy por lo que vale la pena leerla.
Yo sólo agregaría que para aquellos que definitivamente no tengan interés en un doctorado y su objetivo sea realizar carrera en el setcor financiero o consultoría, definitivamente integrarse al mercado laboral lo más pronto posible es la mejor recomendación. Esto no quiere decir que no realicen un posgrado en el futuro, aunque normalmente en este caso será una maestría, y usualmente es un MBA (maestría en administración y negocios)...
Post de Mankiw
Yo sólo agregaría que para aquellos que definitivamente no tengan interés en un doctorado y su objetivo sea realizar carrera en el setcor financiero o consultoría, definitivamente integrarse al mercado laboral lo más pronto posible es la mejor recomendación. Esto no quiere decir que no realicen un posgrado en el futuro, aunque normalmente en este caso será una maestría, y usualmente es un MBA (maestría en administración y negocios)...
Post de Mankiw
martes, 19 de junio de 2012
Ética Académica en las Asesorías y Consultorías
El tema de la ética académica en los trabajos de asesoría y consultoría nos es nuevo, pero se convirtió en un tema caliente a raíz de la crisis, lo cual se expresa de manera cruda en la película Inside Job. El punto central es que muchos profesores de renombre en universidades de prestigio son contratados por entidades privadas, grupos financieros o gobiernos foráneos, para realizar estudios que son pagados con cifras estratoféricas, y cuyos resultados son poco claros. Dicho de otra forma, terminan validando los resultados que esperaban los que los contrataron. Existe una relación no deseable entre la entidad contratante y el académico que usualmente es reconocido en el medio, pero además forma parte de una Universidad o Institución de prestigio. El problema es aún mayor cuando el académico o consultor no es realmente reconocido en su medio por méritos propios, pero hace uso del nombre de su institución que sí es reconocido por el mercado!!!
Hoy, en un editorial, Predators and Professors, Simon Johnson vuelve a tocar el tema, en particular vinculado a los grupos financieros.
Este no es un tema ajeno a la academia fuera de Estados Unidos, incluida la mexicana, y sobre el cual vale la pena reflexionar más seriamente.
lunes, 21 de mayo de 2012
Lecturas Recomendadas: 21-05-12
Algunas lecturas cortas
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En Carpe Diem, Updates on America's Shameful War on Drugs, Which Has Spread to Mexico and Killed 55,000
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En el Blog Real Time Economics Battle for Academic Economists Is Heating Up
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En el Blog, The CreativityPost, Is Academia Inhospitable to Big Discoveries?
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Del Blog Discover Magazine 20 Things You Didn't Know About...Math
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En Carpe Diem, Updates on America's Shameful War on Drugs, Which Has Spread to Mexico and Killed 55,000
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En el Blog Real Time Economics Battle for Academic Economists Is Heating Up
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En el Blog, The CreativityPost, Is Academia Inhospitable to Big Discoveries?
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Del Blog Discover Magazine 20 Things You Didn't Know About...Math
miércoles, 18 de abril de 2012
¿Cuánto Gana un Profesor en una Universidad en USA?
Una lista actualizada de los salarios de profesores en las universidades americanas..... tendrán un espacio en Harvard para mi? jeje CIDE, toma nota!!!!
martes, 17 de abril de 2012
Reditúa Estudiar Economía (y Matemáticas)?
Interesante artículo publicado en el WSJ en donde se hace referencia a un estudio que vincula el tipo de carrera (major en USA) y los salarios en el mercado laboral... pero de manera interesante señala que
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"...They find that among other things, math skills are correlated to higher earnings. “Wages tend to be high for engineers and low for elementary education majors, suggesting that perhaps much of the wage differences between majors are due to differences in mathematical ability and high school course work,” the authors write."
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"...They find that among other things, math skills are correlated to higher earnings. “Wages tend to be high for engineers and low for elementary education majors, suggesting that perhaps much of the wage differences between majors are due to differences in mathematical ability and high school course work,” the authors write."
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Como podrá observarse en la tabla de la nota, el futuro de los estudiantes de economía parece .... ok alentador... Aunque el estudio es para Estados Unidos, en el mercado mexicano se observan algunas similitudes, en particular si la preparación del economista proviene de un programa con un importante contenido técnico-matemático y econométrico....
martes, 28 de febrero de 2012
¿Malas Prácticas en Algunos Journals Académicos?
Este post es de interés particular para académicos. Este artículo me parece algo preocupante y sugiere prácticas poco decorosas de algunas revistas académicas incluso conocidas
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Coerced citations and manipulated impact factors – the dirty tricks of academic journals
A number of business and economic journals systematically manipulate their impact factors and try to artificially boost their academic reputation. This is the staggering conclusion of a survey conducted by two American economists, Allen W. Wilhite and Eric A. Fong, both affiliated with The University of Alabama, Huntsville.
The authors reveal that editors frequently and deliberately force researchers to quote articles that originally have not been considered relevant by them. Usually the editors them them to refer to articles which were published in the very same journal the authors submitted their work to. However, some editors even try to push the citation of individual articles and researchers
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Coerced citations and manipulated impact factors – the dirty tricks of academic journals
A number of business and economic journals systematically manipulate their impact factors and try to artificially boost their academic reputation. This is the staggering conclusion of a survey conducted by two American economists, Allen W. Wilhite and Eric A. Fong, both affiliated with The University of Alabama, Huntsville.
The authors reveal that editors frequently and deliberately force researchers to quote articles that originally have not been considered relevant by them. Usually the editors them them to refer to articles which were published in the very same journal the authors submitted their work to. However, some editors even try to push the citation of individual articles and researchers
domingo, 26 de febrero de 2012
Como ser un Mejor Profesor (de Economía)
En realidad estas ideas aplican para cualquier profesor.... tomadas de un post de John Baez en el 2006... vale la pena revisarlas (aunque seguramente no todos mis colegas estarán de acuerdo)
Teaching is Like Acting - you're standing up there on stage making us watch you: you'd better be worth it. The closest professions to teaching are stage acting and stand-up comedy. Learn how they do it.
Tell Us a Story - people understand stories better than anything else; take advantage of it. You've got a conflict between bad guys (problems) and good guys (concepts, theories and techniques). Introduce the characters when they walk on stage. Build up suspense through a clear story line. When the good guys win, cheer them on! Foreshadow the future; review the past.
Keep the Sheep Moving in the Same Direction - a lecture should have a clear and simple plot. Avoid anything that distracts from this. Don't make too many points. Don't be afraid to repeat yourself.
When You're Teaching a Subject, Don't Think About That Subject: Think About Teaching - don't focus on subtleties that interest you; focus on your audience. Do your preparation before class. Be here now.
Illustrate the Movement of Thought - people learn by example. Don't just provide an algorithm for solving a problem: act out how your students could discover how to solve it! Illustrating mistakes is just as important as showing how to do things right.
Break Down the Barrier Between Stage and Audience - ask them questions, get them to ask questions, get them to work problems, and above all: don't let them fall asleep. If they start yawning, throw a piece of chalk in their mouth. Learning is not a passive business.
Keep Learning How to Teach Better - There are many levels of skill. You've only reached the top when huge crowds batter down the door to listen to you whenever you speak. If you stop trying to be better, you'll get bored and your audience will too. Teaching is more fun when you put more energy into it.
Teach the Students You Have - not the ones you wish you had. If you get annoyed at students for being insufficiently prepared, or not as smart as you, you'll become a grumpy old fart, just like some of the lousy teachers you had.
Tell Us a Story - people understand stories better than anything else; take advantage of it. You've got a conflict between bad guys (problems) and good guys (concepts, theories and techniques). Introduce the characters when they walk on stage. Build up suspense through a clear story line. When the good guys win, cheer them on! Foreshadow the future; review the past.
Keep the Sheep Moving in the Same Direction - a lecture should have a clear and simple plot. Avoid anything that distracts from this. Don't make too many points. Don't be afraid to repeat yourself.
When You're Teaching a Subject, Don't Think About That Subject: Think About Teaching - don't focus on subtleties that interest you; focus on your audience. Do your preparation before class. Be here now.
Illustrate the Movement of Thought - people learn by example. Don't just provide an algorithm for solving a problem: act out how your students could discover how to solve it! Illustrating mistakes is just as important as showing how to do things right.
Break Down the Barrier Between Stage and Audience - ask them questions, get them to ask questions, get them to work problems, and above all: don't let them fall asleep. If they start yawning, throw a piece of chalk in their mouth. Learning is not a passive business.
Keep Learning How to Teach Better - There are many levels of skill. You've only reached the top when huge crowds batter down the door to listen to you whenever you speak. If you stop trying to be better, you'll get bored and your audience will too. Teaching is more fun when you put more energy into it.
Teach the Students You Have - not the ones you wish you had. If you get annoyed at students for being insufficiently prepared, or not as smart as you, you'll become a grumpy old fart, just like some of the lousy teachers you had.
martes, 10 de enero de 2012
El Mercado Laboral Académico para Egresados con Doctorado en Economía (incluye salarios)
Un interesante artículo que presenta un estudio del mercado laboral académico (en Estados Unidos) para egresados con doctorado (H.T. Mankiw).
SURVEY OF THE LABOR MARKET FOR NEW PH.D. HIRES IN ECONOMICS 2011-2012
El resumen de Mankiw
Responses from 90 institutions indicate that the average expected salary offer for the 2011-12 academic year is $89,155.... The average expected offer by Ph.D. degree granting institutions [is] $99,269.... The Top 30 institutions in the sample report an average expected offer of $115,000.... Bachelor and Master degree granting institutions report an expected offer of $74,520
SURVEY OF THE LABOR MARKET FOR NEW PH.D. HIRES IN ECONOMICS 2011-2012
El resumen de Mankiw
Responses from 90 institutions indicate that the average expected salary offer for the 2011-12 academic year is $89,155.... The average expected offer by Ph.D. degree granting institutions [is] $99,269.... The Top 30 institutions in the sample report an average expected offer of $115,000.... Bachelor and Master degree granting institutions report an expected offer of $74,520
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Un dato adicional interesante. Si revisan los cuadros, el mayor número de puestos demandados por especialidad es MACRO/MONEY ECONOMICS!!!!
lunes, 12 de diciembre de 2011
Vestimenta y Señalización en el Job Market
Un interesante artículo sobre la vestimenta de los aplicantes en el Job market... de economistas.... ¿qué piensan?
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Ultimately, the economics job market is a matching game - each candidate and each employer is trying to find the candidate that's right for them. Hence a candidate's signal should be tailored to the type of employer he or she wishes to attract. Jeans and a t-shirt say "I'm not willing to put on a suit just to please students or clients or hiring committees". Since that would be a bad signal to give to a teaching oriented university, jeans and a t-shirt is a way of signalling interest in research. Matching also makes things tricky for female and minority candidates - a candidate who is demographically similar to the hiring committee can aim to fit in, to dress like one of the guys. Others can try, but they are less likely to succeed.
In other words, it's a complete total and utter minefield - everything from your hair to your shoes is a signal, and you could get it wrong. Looking on the bright side, as Amartya Sen once observed, economic man is close to being a social moron.** You might have been the least fashion-conscious and most clued out person in high school, but in a group of economists, you too can be a fashion star. And even if you aren't, the average economist is unlikely to notice.
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Ultimately, the economics job market is a matching game - each candidate and each employer is trying to find the candidate that's right for them. Hence a candidate's signal should be tailored to the type of employer he or she wishes to attract. Jeans and a t-shirt say "I'm not willing to put on a suit just to please students or clients or hiring committees". Since that would be a bad signal to give to a teaching oriented university, jeans and a t-shirt is a way of signalling interest in research. Matching also makes things tricky for female and minority candidates - a candidate who is demographically similar to the hiring committee can aim to fit in, to dress like one of the guys. Others can try, but they are less likely to succeed.
In other words, it's a complete total and utter minefield - everything from your hair to your shoes is a signal, and you could get it wrong. Looking on the bright side, as Amartya Sen once observed, economic man is close to being a social moron.** You might have been the least fashion-conscious and most clued out person in high school, but in a group of economists, you too can be a fashion star. And even if you aren't, the average economist is unlikely to notice.
lunes, 24 de octubre de 2011
El Tortuoso Proceso para Publicar en Revistas Académicas de Economía
Este post es de particular interés para aquellos economistas dedicados a la academia. Les comparto esta liga a esta nota interesante:Publication lags and young economists’ research output
It is a well-documented fact that the time between submission and publication at most journals has been increasing over the last few decades. This column documents and discusses various implications of this publication slowdown on research productivity and the careers of economics PhD recipients...
...These data show that the economics profession is extremely hierarchical, both in the sense that top scholars vastly out-publish even average ones, and that top programmes produce graduates who are significantly better than non-top programmes. Our most important conclusion, however, is that there has been a significant slowdown in the publication rates of junior faculty over recent years, and this is likely due to a more difficult publishing environment than a drop in the quality of new PhDs. This suggests that our profession should be careful when evaluating people for tenure and promotions. The rules of the game have changed and members of more recent cohorts who may be just as talented and hard-working as their predecessors almost certainly will have shorter CVs in comparison.
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It is a well-documented fact that the time between submission and publication at most journals has been increasing over the last few decades. This column documents and discusses various implications of this publication slowdown on research productivity and the careers of economics PhD recipients...
...These data show that the economics profession is extremely hierarchical, both in the sense that top scholars vastly out-publish even average ones, and that top programmes produce graduates who are significantly better than non-top programmes. Our most important conclusion, however, is that there has been a significant slowdown in the publication rates of junior faculty over recent years, and this is likely due to a more difficult publishing environment than a drop in the quality of new PhDs. This suggests that our profession should be careful when evaluating people for tenure and promotions. The rules of the game have changed and members of more recent cohorts who may be just as talented and hard-working as their predecessors almost certainly will have shorter CVs in comparison.
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Más allá del impacto sobre la carrera académica para aquellos que buscan "tenure", también podría haber una impacto en el debate académico al resultar más lento y acotado en la medida que las primeras publicaciones toman la forma de documentos de trabajo o "mimeos". En este sentido, este tema se vincula con el papel de los Blogs en Economía tal y como lo señalé en este post al permitir una mayor y más amplia difusión de muchos temas con mayor rapidez.
lunes, 4 de julio de 2011
¿Siguen Siendo Útiles los Documentos de Trabajo?
De acuerdo a este post en un blog del banco mundial, Working Papers are NOT Working, parece que no.
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...So, what if we chose to not have working papers? There is no doubt that the speed with which journals publish submitted papers would have to change. Some journals pay reviewers: this could become more prevalent to encourage speedy but thorough reviews. And, these days, journal articles, with all the requested online appendices, the data, dofiles, etc. are much more attractive than working papers and I don’t think they are more academic. If you can write well and make your findings accessible for policymakers, you do equally well via a journal article as a working paper.
If we didn't have working papers, we could also go back to double blind reviews again. No, it won’t be perfect, but double-blind was there for a reason. I see serious equity concerns with single blind reviews (Those of you out there who receive a paper to review: if you are not sure who the authors are by the time you read the abstract, please resist the urge to Google the title). This should be our default position until we study the effects of single- vs. double-blind reviews in economics a bit more...
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...So, what if we chose to not have working papers? There is no doubt that the speed with which journals publish submitted papers would have to change. Some journals pay reviewers: this could become more prevalent to encourage speedy but thorough reviews. And, these days, journal articles, with all the requested online appendices, the data, dofiles, etc. are much more attractive than working papers and I don’t think they are more academic. If you can write well and make your findings accessible for policymakers, you do equally well via a journal article as a working paper.
If we didn't have working papers, we could also go back to double blind reviews again. No, it won’t be perfect, but double-blind was there for a reason. I see serious equity concerns with single blind reviews (Those of you out there who receive a paper to review: if you are not sure who the authors are by the time you read the abstract, please resist the urge to Google the title). This should be our default position until we study the effects of single- vs. double-blind reviews in economics a bit more...
lunes, 14 de febrero de 2011
Consejos Para Economistas: Estudios, Trabajo Académico, Etc.
Les comparto esta liga de MASAYUKI KUDAMATSU WEBSITE en donde presenta una amplia lista de referencias sobre artículos y notas que sirven de consejos para economistas desde la selección de un programa doctoral, cómo vivir como estudiante, cómo escribir trabajos, realizar investigación, ir al mercado de trabajo, ser profesor en vía de obtener un tenure (plaza definitiva) y ser ya un profesor; hablar con la prensa, y muchos temas más.
lunes, 3 de enero de 2011
Se Recupera el Mercado para Economistas con Doctorado
La mayoría de los estudiantes que están concluyendo su doctorado en economía en la mayoría de las universidades del mundo saben que este es el momento crucial para encontrar trabajo. este es un mercado relativamente estructurado a nivel mundial y la mayor actividad ocurrirá en los próximos días en la reunión anual de la ASSA, en Denver, Colorado (USA). Todos hacemos referencia a este "job market". Las diversas ofertas se publicitan en el JOE y las entrevistas ocurren en esa reunión. Es interesante señalar que no sólo son posiciones académicas, sino que hay otras no académicas y que no sólo son ofertas en Estados Unidos sino ofertas en muchas universidades y otras entidades del mundo.
Un artículo del Inside Higher Ed. (citado en varios blogs) hace referencia a la situación de este mercado para este año, y ofrece un panorama en general. Habla de una recuperación de ofertas a los niveles del 2008, con excepción del área de historia económica. En éste último caso se habla de una caída de casi 30%, pero también se redujo el año pasado. Se haba de poco más de 500 ofertas, el menor nivel en los últimos 25 años
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...This year, the jobs bounced back. The total number of listings with the AEA rose to 2,842 in 2010, up from 2,285 in 2009, and only 43 jobs shy of the 2008 total. Because many of the 2008 openings that were listed were for searches that were subsequently called off, the AEA report -- prepared by John J. Siegfried, secretary-treasurer of the association -- says that it believes job openings are now above 2008 levels.
New academic jobs increased to 1,884 in 2010, up from 1,512 in 2009, and now exceed 2008 totals by 24. The vast majority of the academic jobs are at universities with graduate programs.
The top area of specialization in job listings, by far, was mathematical and quantitative methods, followed by microeconomics, macroeconomics and financial economics, international economics, and macroeconomics and monetary economics.
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Un artículo del Inside Higher Ed. (citado en varios blogs) hace referencia a la situación de este mercado para este año, y ofrece un panorama en general. Habla de una recuperación de ofertas a los niveles del 2008, con excepción del área de historia económica. En éste último caso se habla de una caída de casi 30%, pero también se redujo el año pasado. Se haba de poco más de 500 ofertas, el menor nivel en los últimos 25 años
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...This year, the jobs bounced back. The total number of listings with the AEA rose to 2,842 in 2010, up from 2,285 in 2009, and only 43 jobs shy of the 2008 total. Because many of the 2008 openings that were listed were for searches that were subsequently called off, the AEA report -- prepared by John J. Siegfried, secretary-treasurer of the association -- says that it believes job openings are now above 2008 levels.
New academic jobs increased to 1,884 in 2010, up from 1,512 in 2009, and now exceed 2008 totals by 24. The vast majority of the academic jobs are at universities with graduate programs.
The top area of specialization in job listings, by far, was mathematical and quantitative methods, followed by microeconomics, macroeconomics and financial economics, international economics, and macroeconomics and monetary economics.
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Un comentario para aquellos que lean este artículo y estén por decidir estudiar posgrado en los próximos años. Hay que revisar la tendencia en las áreas solicitadas y las previsiones en el futuro, ya que será hasta dentro de más de 5 años cuando salgan al mercado y no necesariamente se tiene por qué mantener estas preferencias. Aunque normalmente no varían demasiado, el posible efecto de la crisis en la profesión se verá sólo hasta dentro de algunos años más.
martes, 28 de diciembre de 2010
¿Es Una Pérdida de Tiempo Estudiar un Doctorado?
Interesante artículo en The Economist, en donde se cuestiona la utilidad de estudiar un doctorado, por muchas razones....
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One thing many PhD students have in common is dissatisfaction. Some describe their work as “slave labour”. Seven-day weeks, ten-hour days, low pay and uncertain prospects are widespread. You know you are a graduate student, goes one quip, when your office is better decorated than your home and you have a favourite flavour of instant noodle. “It isn’t graduate school itself that is discouraging,” says one student, who confesses to rather enjoying the hunt for free pizza. “What’s discouraging is realising the end point has been yanked out of reach.”
One thing many PhD students have in common is dissatisfaction. Some describe their work as “slave labour”. Seven-day weeks, ten-hour days, low pay and uncertain prospects are widespread. You know you are a graduate student, goes one quip, when your office is better decorated than your home and you have a favourite flavour of instant noodle. “It isn’t graduate school itself that is discouraging,” says one student, who confesses to rather enjoying the hunt for free pizza. “What’s discouraging is realising the end point has been yanked out of reach.”
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viernes, 8 de octubre de 2010
Convocatoria Plaza en Administración Pública en el CIDE
Les comparto esta información:
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Convocatoria para profesor investigador División de Administración Pública/CIDE
La División de Administración Pública del Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
(CIDE) busca cubrir una plaza de Profesor – Investigador titular a principios de 2011.
El CIDE es un centro público de investigación en ciencias sociales, con programas de
excelencia en licenciatura y posgrado. Los sueldos son competitivos nacional e internacionalmente y la carga docente habitual es de un curso por semestre. El idioma de
trabajo en el CIDE es el español y el profesor seleccionado deberá impartir clases en este
idioma.
La División busca un investigador con formación en administración pública, políticas
públicas, derecho, ciencias políticas u otras especialidades afines. Se requiere que los
aspirantes cuenten con el grado de doctor, con una sólida formación en teoría y métodos
de investigación, y con interés en el estudio de los asuntos públicos en México. Se invita
de manera particular a especialistas en el estudio de las políticas públicas o de la
administración pública desde la perspectiva del derecho, pero todos los candidatos serán
considerados.
Los interesados deberán enviar los siguientes documentos en .pdf al correo
mariajose.cespedes@cide.edu antes del 15 de noviembre de 2010:
‐ Carta de presentación que explique sus líneas de investigación e intereses de
docencia
‐ Curriculum vitae
‐ Un artículo publicado como muestra de su trabajo escrito.
Para más información, visite la página del CIDE www.cide.edu
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Convocatoria para profesor investigador División de Administración Pública/CIDE
La División de Administración Pública del Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas
(CIDE) busca cubrir una plaza de Profesor – Investigador titular a principios de 2011.
El CIDE es un centro público de investigación en ciencias sociales, con programas de
excelencia en licenciatura y posgrado. Los sueldos son competitivos nacional e internacionalmente y la carga docente habitual es de un curso por semestre. El idioma de
trabajo en el CIDE es el español y el profesor seleccionado deberá impartir clases en este
idioma.
La División busca un investigador con formación en administración pública, políticas
públicas, derecho, ciencias políticas u otras especialidades afines. Se requiere que los
aspirantes cuenten con el grado de doctor, con una sólida formación en teoría y métodos
de investigación, y con interés en el estudio de los asuntos públicos en México. Se invita
de manera particular a especialistas en el estudio de las políticas públicas o de la
administración pública desde la perspectiva del derecho, pero todos los candidatos serán
considerados.
Los interesados deberán enviar los siguientes documentos en .pdf al correo
mariajose.cespedes@cide.edu antes del 15 de noviembre de 2010:
‐ Carta de presentación que explique sus líneas de investigación e intereses de
docencia
‐ Curriculum vitae
‐ Un artículo publicado como muestra de su trabajo escrito.
Para más información, visite la página del CIDE www.cide.edu
viernes, 16 de julio de 2010
Economistas con Doctorado: Ofertas de Trabajo en el Mundo
Para aquellos que han estudiado un doctorado en economía, saben que en esta profesión existe un mercado "mundial" relativamente organizado y que funciona de manera adecuada con criterios homogénenos internacionales..... el famoso "job market" que ocurre cada enero en Estados Unidos.
Sin embargo, ahora tenemos una nueva noticia al respecto. En un esfuerzo interesante, en Voxeu.org han creado una base mundial de ofertas de trabajo para economistas con doctorado, la cual intenta ser la mayor del mundo. Incluso, se ha generado un sistema para facilitar el proceso de aplicación.
viernes, 16 de abril de 2010
¿Cuánto Gana un Académico Universitario en Estados Unidos?
Les comparto esta liga al Blog Economix en donde en este post Where Professors Make the Most muestra un ranking de sueldos promedio en Universidades americanas.
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