questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how … received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the … number of publications, results suggest a higher productivity by graduates from European universities than from USA …

respect to conference characteristics. Based on a sample of European labour economists, preferences are measured using the … vignette approach where participants are asked to choose between hypothetical European Association of Labour Economists (EALE … location of the conference. There is substantial heterogeneity in the taste of labour economists especially with respect to …

% per year. Finally, the median salaries of first-year full-time permanent 9- to 10-month academic economists hired in 2002 …

economists may provide their graduate students and the types of faculty positions that academic institutions may provide for new … Ph.D. economists in the future. …

who are, by conventional measures, smarter than economists and where the base of knowledge is better established than ours …. Despite this, economists earn more and have better career prospects than physicists or mathematicians. The paper offers …

Presents results from a survey of 450 new (1996-97) Ph.D. economists, providing information about employment ….D. programs, sectors of employment and subfields of economics, as well as over time. Labor market outcomes for economists also are … economists compare favorably with new Ph.D.s in many other disciplines. …

The author describes his experience with the process of peer reviews by economists of economics departments. On the …