Survey of the Labor Market for New Ph.D. Hires in Economics 2020-2021

This year, the survey questionnaire was sent to 367 organizations. Questionnaires were returned by 141 organizations (38.4 percent). Of this year’s responses, 66 (46.8 percent) were from those who responded to the last survey conducted for the 2019-20 academic year. Among the academic institutions responding, the distribution of highest degrees offered was as follows: Ph.D.—50.4 percent; Master’s—9.9 percent and Bachelor’s—38.3 percent. The responses are reported for all respondents, and separately for Ph.D. Degree granting institutions and for schools whose highest degree offered is the Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree. Data for the top 30 institutions in the revised National Research Council’s Research Doctorate Report, 2011, are reported as a subset of Ph.D. Degree grantingschools. They are referred to as the Top 30

Labor Market Integration between Northern Mexico and Southern United States: an empirical investigation.

In this paper, the analysis of co-dependence between the US and Mexico labor markets is carried out by estimating the cyclical component of California’s and Texas’ manufacturing employment and four US Border Mexican cities through the Hodrick-Prescott filter. We estimated the smoothing parameter following a calibration technique proposed by Guerrero et al (2001) which allows us to obtain the best linear unbiased estimator of the trend component. Our analysis suggests that after 1994 there has been greater labor market integration between Mexico’s northern region and US’ southern region. This greater integration has implied a change in the nature of the short term relationship of manufacturing employment between Mexico and the US. The change is also significant on the relationship between Mexican real wages and US employment.Vertical FDI, Labor market integration, Hodrick-Prescott filter,Latin America, US-Mexico border

Labor Market

[Excerpt] According to textbooks such as Ronald Ehrenberg and Robert Smith’s Modern Labor Economics (2005), a labor market is the place where labor services are bought and sold. The term labor is equated to the term work , not only manual work but also knowledge work. Sometimes, the place where labor services are bought and sold is a clearly identifiable one such as a construction site or a lawyer’s office. Other times, the place is ill-defined, as for the work of most readers of this article, who are hired in one location and who perform labor services in a number of others, such as offices, libraries, home offices, airplane lounges, and hotel rooms