Wall Street Journal: Job Market for Economists Turns … Dismal
The dismal economy has claimed yet another victim: jobs for the economists who study it.
Columbia University’s economics department, for example, isn’t making any new hires this year. That’s in stark contrast to last year, when Columbia poached eight economics professors from other schools, and hired one economist out of graduate school. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Amherst College and the University of Minnesota all have suspended their searches for economics professors. And Harvard University has gotten permission to hire just one person — only after “many rounds of negotiation,” according to Harvard economist Lawrence Katz, who is handling recruiting this year. Typically, Harvard hires two or three economics professors out of graduate school.
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