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- Blog Post
- Posted 11 years ago
Economists and Social Media
* The original article was published in the INOMICS Customer Newsletter. Click here to subscribe.
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- Work Abroad Article
- Posted 11 years ago
Global Job Market: Spanish Professionals Move to South America
Source: EstadĂstica de Variaciones Residenciales y Estimaciones de la PoblaciĂłn Actual, INE.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 11 years ago
INOMICS Partners with IAEE
The US-based International Association for Energy Economics is the worldâs largest organization of Energy Economists with members from over 100 countries. Part of their mandate includes facilitating the mutual association of people interested in energy economics, in order to create a forum for professional discussion and to provide a means of international communication and exchange. Collaboration between INOMICS and IAEE has already benefitted both organizations in terms of consolidating global reach and sharing resources.
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- Study Advice Article
- Posted 11 years ago
PhD Graduates: Disciplines and Numbers
Source: National Science Foundation, NSF/NIH/USED/USDA/NEH/NASA, Survey of Earned Doctorates
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- Blog Post
- Posted 11 years ago
AEA 2013 Annual Meeting: Links and Resources
Two weeks having passed since ASSA 2013 we have put together a list of links from economics blogs, which highlight some of the sessions, papers and thoughts triggered by the discussions. If you have found more interesting resources share them with us in the comments!
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- Study Abroad Article
- Posted 11 years ago
Chinese PhDs vs US PhDs
Source: Ministry of Education of the Peopleâs Republic of China (China), The Survey of Earned Doctorates, National Science Foundation (US)
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- Blog Post
- Posted 11 years ago
Demand for Econ PhDs, the Nobel Prize, Rankings, Economics Apps, Salaries and Other Top Blog Posts 2012
As we reached the end of the year 2012, we decided to compile a list of the top INOMICS blog posts, those that received a record number of visitors throughout the year. Enjoy your reading and Happy New Year to everyone!
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- Blog Post
- Posted 11 years ago
Christmas Economics: Which Countries Spend the Most and on What?
Sources: Christmas Spending Survey 2012, Deloitte; NRFâs Holiday Survival Kit (US only); HSBC Christmas Spending Survey 2012 (UK only) The Christmas Season is probably the heaviest burden for family budgets among all the annual holidays, and the best business opportunity for retailers. In the US alone estimations of spending on Christmas-related items hit $586.1 billion in 2012.
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- Recruiter Advice Article
- Posted 11 years ago
New Search Helps You Reach More Candidates
At the start of the 2012/13 academic year, INOMICS was proud to launch a new search function, incorporating new technology and features to help visitors to the INOMICS site filter through the content online, and find precisely what they are looking for.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 11 years ago
INOMICS and ERSA Announce Partnership
INOMICS continues and expands its working partnership with the European Regional Scienc Association (ERSA) into 2013.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 11 years ago
Halloween Economics: Who Spends Money on What?
Halloween is a highly commercialized holiday in the US, with people of all ages celebrating and spending. Expected Halloween spending of US consumers in 2012 almost equals government expenditures of Kenya. According to surveys conducted annually by the National Retail Federation, in last five years total spending on Halloween in the US grew from $4.96 billion in 2006 to an expected $8 billion in 2012. After a significant drop in spending in 2009, consumers managed to bring it back up to the level of a previous year in 2010.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 11 years ago
Google Economics
Googleâs California headquarters is one of the more unusual places where you might find economists hard at work. While economists did not have a place at Google when it launched in 1998, by 2002 Google had begun to hire economists in advisory roles as the demand for Googleâs ad space grew in size and complexity.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 11 years ago
Nobel Prize in Economics 2012: Winners Announced
âYou canât be an economist without noticing all the interesting things about how the economy works, it is natural to be interested in it and I have had the privilege to be able to study itâ said Alvin A. Roth answering questions during the unexpected 4am call from Sweden. Together with Lloyd S. Shapley, Roth was awarded the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel â more commonly known as the Nobel Prize in Economics â âfor the theory of stable allocations and practice of market designâ. During the award speech the field was described as being ââŠabout economic engineering, [and] how to design certain markets where the traditional market mechanism is expected to not work well.â
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- Career Advice Article
- Posted 11 years ago
To Open Access or Not?
âOpen Accessâ has been a bit of a buzzword in academic circles over the last couple of years. Its rise to popularity has come from a combination of factors including the increased price to access academic journals, as well as increased access to the internet, which has had the effect of speeding up the rate at which information travels.
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- Study Abroad Article
- Posted 11 years ago
Studying Abroad, Lonely Abroad
The China Economic Review from last month ran an interesting piece by John van Fleet about the 150,000+ Haigui (æ”·ćœ) currently studying in the USA (Haigui, literally âSea Turtlesâ is the name given to Chinese students studying abroad). Van Fleet discusses not only the challenges of interaction between international and domestic students, but also the economic impact for both host and origin country.
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- Career Advice Article
- Posted 11 years ago
Textbooks versus E-Books
A few weeks ago I came across an interview on TechCrunch with Brian Kibby, the president of McGraw-Hill Higher Education, discussing his positive outlook on the future of e-books, e-content and generally the future of what he calls âsuper adaptive learning.â Contrary to what one might expect from a textbook publisher, Kibby explains in the interview that he expects to see a significant increase in the adoption of e-materials within the next year and full adoption within three years. Optimistic?
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- Blog Post
- Posted 11 years ago
Free Education to Replace Skyrocketing Tuition Fees?
The cost of education varies enormously depending on what one studies and where. In the last few years, there has been plenty of hype about the âHigher Education Bubble,â brought to the attention of the media by the Economist last year. This phenomena seems to be particularly prominent in the business-oriented fields worldwide and as an overarching situation in the US.
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- Career Advice Article
- Posted 12 years ago
Unemployment & Salaries: Your Major Matters
Unemployment For College Majors
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- Career Advice Article
- Posted 12 years ago
How To Deal With Nervousness During Presentations At a Conference
You've been accepted to give a talk at a conference, you've worked on your presentation, and you're ready to go â now you just need to keep your nerves under control! It's very common to struggle with nervousness when presenting, so consider these tips to help you deal with this.
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