David Comerford and Eibhlin Hudson

Congratulations to both David and Eibhlin who passed their respective PhD vivas recently. Dave is currently a postdoc in Duke and Eibhlin is a lecturer in RMIT in Melbourne.

Ben Elsner - FEEM Award

Congrats to Ben Elsner, TCD PhD Student who most of the local readers here know, for being one of three winners of the FEEM award at this year's European Economics Association. According to the website, 600 papers were eligible and this is a very competitive pool to begin with. Details of his paper from the website below.

Benjamin Elsner, Trinity College Dublin
Does Emigration Benefit The Stayers? The Eu Enlargement As A Natural Experiment. Evidence From Lithuania

Migration impacts both receiving and source countries. While both are important in assessing the welfare consequences of migration, most research has focused on the receiving countries. Elsner studies the effect in the source country of migration resulting from the eastern enlargement of the European Union in 2004. From 2004 to 2007, around 9 percent of the Lithuanian workforce emigrated to the UK and Ireland. Elsner finds that demographic and educational groups in which a larger share emigrated had a more positive wage trend. He concludes that emigration had a significant positive effect on the wages of those who stay. This effect is only significant for men, and the impact is greater for unmarried people. These are important pieces of evidence to evaluate welfare consequences of migration flows.

Student-Advisor Matching and Early Career Publishing Success for Economics PhDs

Michael J. Hilmer; Christiana E. Hilmer
San Diego State University - Department of Economics

Economic Inquiry, Vol. 47, Issue 2, pp. 290-303, April 2009

Abstract:

We examine a unique data set containing information on a PhD recipient’s dissertation advisor, graduate program, and early career publishing success. Regressions controlling for the ranking of both the student’s graduate program and dissertation advisor confirm that, all else equal, students working with prominent advisors are significantly more likely to publish in their early careers, especially in top 36 journals, than students working with less prominent advisors. Moreover, predicted publication values suggest that students attending lower ranked programs but working with superstar faculty publish both more total and top 36 articles and more quality-adjusted pages than students attending top-ranked programs but working with less prominent advisors.

The Demand for PhD IT Jobs Advertised Across the UK

IT Jobs Watch provides a perspective on the technology job market in the UK. It is possible to view (employer) demand trends and salary trends related to permanent IT jobs (citing PhD) from the start of 2004. As shown below (and also available here), demand has returned to its mid-2005 level, and is trending upwards.

The first chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs (citing PhD) within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within overall qualifications. The second chart shows the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing PhD within the UK.

Doubling the number of PhDs?

Another article questioning current government strategy in this area

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2009/0706/1224250103510.html?via=mr

Job Market Prospects for Economists

This may have been posted before but worth putting up again - would like to see more solid figures but good news for a lot of the people who read this blog

link here