Job Market and Placement Information
Job Market Candidates List
A (non-exhaustive) list of DPhil students currently on the job market appears here. Any confirmed DPhil student or any recent DPhil graduate (up to three years from graduation) from the Oxford Economics Department can be listed if they so wish. The placement listing is intended for those seeking full-time employment, not for short-term consulting, part-time teaching, and internships. If you wish to be listed, send an email to Marcel Fafchamps with the following information:
- Name:
- Address:
- Tel:
- Email address:
- Web page address:
- Thesis Title:
- Supervisor(s):
- Research Fields:
Job News Mailing List
Job related information is also circulated by email. If you're an Oxford student or graduate, you may sign up to the mailing list simply by sending a message to EconJobs. You will then receive a confirmation request, and once you reply to it, you should receive a message confirming that you are a subscriber. Various job opportunities are also listed on the intranet bulletin board here.
Economics Job websites:
- Job Openings for Economists (JOE) Note: (1) you can download this as a pdf; (2) you may want to look at 'permanent' and 'other' positions, since the latter include post-docs, which can be interesting.
- EconJobMarket The site from the Europeran Economic Asscoation is used by some universities for their job application process.
- EconJobs Contains few academic jobs.
- Walras
- The VoxEU jobs listing contains the same information as Walras and is more user-friendly.
- Inomics
- Jobs.ac.uk good for Oxbridge college jobs and the UK market in general, some European and South African institutions also advertise here.
Economics Job Market events:
- American Economic Association - Allied Social Science Associations annual meeting (January, U.S.A.)
- Royal Economics Society - RES PhD Presentation Meeting & Job Market annual meeting (January, London).
The aim of these events is to provide a service both for UK and European university economics departments who wish to recruit lecturers, and for PhD students seeking academic jobs in the UK or elsewhere in Europe. These annual meeting have grown to be extremely successful events, well supported by both students and potential employers. The event consists of two days of students' presentations and poster sessions. Participating institutions attend these presentations and are also allocated a table at the conference site in order to arrange individual appointments with participating students during the course of the conference.
Check the 'Career Events' section of the bulletin board for further event listings.
Other resources:
The following information comes from the experience of a current job market candidate:
- EconJobRumors Recommend just looking at the 'European Job Market' thread. You can find out a lot about individual positions, applicants, who got the job, etc. However, it's an open forum, so the 'evidence' posted needs to be taken with a pinch of salt.
- EconJobMarket Wiki is a site where come January people post information about who is being flown out by which department, who got offered the job, who accepted it. Might be interesting when researching specific departments (e.g. for confirmed ASSA interviews) to see whom they hired last year. Anybody can post, so cannot trust information 100%.
Other suggested materials on the job market:
- Harvard Info webpage Many relevant materials can be found here.
- Here's a VoxEU article on the job market The advantage is that it's very recent.
- This new article covers some ground on the 'modern' job market for economists, signalling, and the 'scramble'.
- John Cawley (Cornell): Guide and Advice for Economists on the US Junior Academic Market (2006) Bit dated but gives most of the information about (1) applications, (2) signalling, (3) ASSA interviews, (4) flyouts, (5) negotiating. Found to be a most useful resource.
- Berkeley Placement Information Package 2010-11. Berkeley specific (forms an internal processes) but includes CV template and cover letter example(!).
- Hisham Foad (Emory) Memoirs of a Job Market Candidate, 2006. Again, a bit dated but contains some interesting samples, including teaching evaluations.
John Cowley's summary of various ranking of US Economic Departments appears in this table. It is based on a variety of published sources references cited in his article. This 1999 article published in the European Economic Review ranks all European (and Israeli) Economics Departments and compares them with US Departments. There is a follow-up article by the same authors that also ranks academic journals. This 2001 unpublished article by Tom Coupe of the Free University of Brussels provides another recent ranking that includes all Economics Departments in the world. Further references on rankings of economics departments are given at the end of this document.
If this is still not enough, feel free to download this file that contains several published articles on the US job market for economists and the results from a survey of hiring and salaries in 2003. Last but not least, this article ranks department according to how they place their economics graduates in the academic job market.