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- Career Advice, Blog Post
- Posted 2 years ago
Salary Gap Between Positions in Academia Slowly Narrowing
The following is an analysis of data taken from the INOMICS Salary Report 2018 - downloadable for registered users here. Specifically, it looks at the average salaries of PhDs, Post-Docs, and Full Professors, working in economics over the last 5 years, in the U.S, the U.K, Germany, and Italy. It is the 4th instalment in a series of insights handling the Report’s findings.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 2 years ago
Is The World Cup Really Worth Hosting?
With the world cup now over a week old, we have reached the moment when even those initially reluctant, those who decried it at its outset, give in to football frenzy and find themselves, at least twice a week, standing amid a crowd of similarly dressed strangers, screaming at 11 little men on a screen they can barely see. It is wholly inevitable, and few would disagree, thoroughly enjoyable. Browse our PhD listings for more opportunities
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- Blog Post
- Posted 2 years ago
The Higher the Academic Qualification the Higher the Wage
The question of how far to proceed within academia, and subsequently, where to ply one’s trade when done, is, and will always be a tricky one. In times of widespread austerity, this quandary is further complicated by a general job climate of increased precariousness, falling wages, and diminished social security - rarely before has financial planning for the future held such significance.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 2 years ago
Meet Gökhan: a Phd Student in Economics at Ankara University in Turkey
Are you curious about the academic careers of your peers in Economics? We had a chance to ask a couple of questions to Mehmet Gökhan Özdemir, a PhD Student in the first year of his program in Economics at the Faculty of Political Sciences at Ankara University.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 2 years ago
Experts Talk: An Interview with Dr. Mark Thoma
Photo Credit: larspsyll In this interview, Dr. Mark Thoma discusses his dislike for the 8 – 5 lifestyle, his lifelong love of math, the importance of economic history and why he’d like to have dinner with Milton Friedman, John Maynard Keynes and Adam Smith, among other topics.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 3 years ago
The Economics of Christmas Songs: When to start playing Jingle Bell Rock?
It happens every year. As you’re walking through a shopping centre, a store, or perhaps a supermarket, you hear a Christmas song, and you know it’s the beginning of the buying frenzy that leads up to Christmas.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 3 years ago
Conference Testimonials - Rebecca Hjemdahl from Norway
INOMICS supports students and researchers in attending conferences with a €500 grant Hear their perspectives on attending conferences and what advice they have to give other academics
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- Blog Post
- Posted 3 years ago
Conference Testimonials - Sarbjeet Singh from India
INOMICS supports students and researchers in attending conferences with a €500 grant Hear their perspectives on attending conferences and what advice they have to give other academics
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- Blog Post
- Posted 3 years ago
Conference Testimonials - Anthony Orji from Nigeria
INOMICS supports students and researchers in attending conferences with a €500 grant Hear their perspectives on attending conferences and what advice they have to give other academics
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- Blog Post
- Posted 3 years ago
Conference Testimonials - Naila Tasneem from Pakistan
INOMICS supports young students and researchers in attending conferences with a €500 grant Hear their perspectives on attending conferences and what advice they have to give other academics
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- Blog Post
- Posted 3 years ago
Conference Testimonials - Christopher A. Hartwell from Poland
INOMICS supports students and researchers in attending conferences with a €500 grant Hear their perspectives on attending conferences and what advice they have to give other academics
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- Blog Post
- Posted 3 years ago
Conference Testimonials - Mihaela Liliana Gondor from Romania
INOMICS supports students and researchers in attending conferences with a €500 grant Hear their perspectives on attending conferences and what advice they have to give other academics
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- Blog Post
- Posted 3 years ago
2017 Nobel Prize in Economics awarded to Richard Thaler
The Nobel Prize for Economics, the most prestigious prize in the field, has been awarded this year to American economist Richard Thaler. The prize, fully titled The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, was announced by The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and will be awarded in a ceremony in Stockholm in December.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 3 years ago
Conference Testimonials - Charles Kalinzi from Uganda
INOMICS supports students and researchers in attending conferences with a €500 grant Hear their perspectives on attending conferences and what advice they have to give other academics
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- Blog Post
- Posted 3 years ago
Getting Started with Stata
What is Stata? If you want to work in econometrics, chances are you’ll need to learn to use a statistical analysis package like Stata. Stata is one of the most widely used software packages to help students and researchers explore, summarise and analyse complicated datasets. The software is available in several different versions which differ mainly in the number of variables allowed in memory.
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- An Explanation
- Posted 3 years ago
Standardizing the Data of Different Scales - Which Method to Use?
When you're doing data analysis, you might find yourself with a number of different variables to work with. For example, perhaps you have invited participants to your lab and run them through your experiment. You have collected data on variables such as the participant's age (in years), their reaction time to a particular stimulus (in milliseconds), their reaction time to another stimulus (in milliseconds), and their rating of a preference (on a 1 – 10 scale).
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- Blog Post
- Posted 3 years ago
How to Revamp Your Company Logo in 2017
The new year is well underway, but there’s still plenty of time to update your brand image in 2017—starting with a redesigned logo. Creating a cool new logo is a great way to show customers … The post How to Revamp Your Company Logo in 2017 appeared first on Intelligent Head Quarters. Read More...
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- Career Advice, Blog Post
- Posted 3 years ago
Tips on attending an international conference
Maybe you've been to a few smaller national conferences, and now you're getting ready to head to your first international conference. Or perhaps your first conference will be a large international one. In either case, there are some tips that you should keep in mind when attending an international conference specifically. Here is our advice on preparing for and attending an international conference. It's likely that English will be the most commonly used language
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- Career Advice, Blog Post
- Posted 3 years ago
Meet Vladimir: an Associate Professor of Economics at Ewha Womans University in Seoul
Vladimir Hlasny is an associate professor of Economics at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. We chose him as the winner of our Conference Grant Contest 2016 and awarded him with a €500 grant.
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- Career Advice, Blog Post
- Posted 3 years ago
5 Biggest Mistakes Conference Attendees Make
Make your conference experience better by avoiding these five common mistakes: 1.Trying to do too much
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- Blog Post
- Posted 3 years ago
Professors Think That Academic Publications Are Much More Relevant For Their Employability Than Their Teaching Skills
The world of academia is constantly changing, so much so that the importance to Professors, of different academic and career achievements, is shifting in ways that may be somewhat unexpected.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 4 years ago
The Narrowing of the Gender Pay Gap For Professors in North America
As more women continue to occupy a greater number of senior positions both in academia and the private sector, the gender pay gap has become an increasingly relevant issue in the professional and academic labor market. The INOMICS Salary Report 2016 has shown the average salary earned by both sexes at different professional and academic levels, in varying geographical regions.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 4 years ago
Will Obtaining a PhD in Economics Guarantee a Higher Salary in the Future?
With 2017 ASSA Annual Meeting in mind, we thought that this information will be helpful for all of you who are considering pursuing a PhD degree in Economics as many students and prospective PhD candidates often question whether obtaining a PhD in Economics is worth it. Will the time, effort and money spent on working towards a PhD guarantee you a higher salary when compared to the salary that can be earned with a Master’s or Bachelor’s degree?
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- Blog Post
- Posted 4 years ago
Top 10 Christmas Gifts For Economics University Teachers
Christmas is coming up soon, and you know what that means – it's time for Christmas shopping! If you're thinking about getting a present for your economics teacher at university, here are our suggestions for top gifts for them. INOMICS and our parent company 11 Academia Networks are Amazon Associates, meaning we are a part of their affiliate program. This article contains affiliate links from them and other partners, which means we may earn money through any qualifying purchases made after you click through. However, this is not a sponsored post.
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- Blog Post
- Posted 4 years ago
Stata: One Program for Many Disciplines
By Sofia Izquierdo-Sanchez University of Huddersfield Timberlake Consultants There was a time when engineers and social scientists thought their fields were too different to combine their research (Black et al., 2010).