paul karner
@KarnerPaul
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Economist, researcher, policy enthusiast, consultant. Opinions mine.
Joined April 2016
Are jobseekers looking too narrowly for jobs? I discuss several studies that look at the idea that job-seekers only look for jobs that are exactly in what they trained in, causing them to miss out on other opportunities.
blogs.worldbank.org
A body of recent work argues that people focus too much on the stereotypical occupation for a field of study when both choosing what to study, and then when looking for jobs – suggesting the need for...
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Huh? Nonsensical headlines about headline inflation continue to feed the fear.
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Joe Manchin is single-handedly ruining “Country Roads” for me.
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(I should add - I am an economist and love economics, but am not close to academics. So some combination of naturally interested in what you're trying to sell and not too close to it. Hopefully that's a useful frame/filter for some of you.)
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orthogonal to thoughtfulness and research potential. It is not "natural" for everyone - and that doesn't mean you're not good at research. That said, it does help to be passionate about the topic you're trying to figure out how to sell. And the other stuff Jesse said...
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And I think that's at least partly inefficient, because it can make a big difference in the trajectory of a piece of research or a young researcher if it is learned and applied at the right time, and it's a skill that is relatively easy to learn and at least somewhat...
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I have the sense that a lot of research and researchers don't get the visibility they deserve because they don't sell the research quite right. This happens in business all the time. And on the JM this becomes a sort of screening device...
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This is great, Jesse. And - I am happy to play the role of Jesse's family... For current students considering how to talk about their papers/research topics: feel free to put your current family-friendly "elevator pitch" here. Or DM or email me & I will try to give you feedbk.
I met with some Ph.D. students tonight who asked me for job market advice (which was a very weird experience for me since I clearly have no idea what I'm doing). One wrote me an email afterwards asking ''What does it take to be competitive for academic jobs?'' 1/n
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I met with some Ph.D. students tonight who asked me for job market advice (which was a very weird experience for me since I clearly have no idea what I'm doing). One wrote me an email afterwards asking ''What does it take to be competitive for academic jobs?'' 1/n
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#EconTwitter I'm looking for literature with a model of production specifically for services firms, where amounts/mix of inputs needed to produce each unit of output is uncertain. Anything come to mind? Many thanks!
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Sadly, we don’t always know the depths of someone’s depression until it is too late. May I please have even 1 follower copy and re-post? I am trying to demonstrate that someone is listening to someone with depression.❤ Just one. Any one.
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A thread of remarkable research on the economics of international migration that I've discovered recently. I'll add to this regularly in the days ahead, in no particular order. I'm summarizing frontier findings, not presenting unquestionable truths. Pour a ☕ and join me—>
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International travelers & migrants carry pandemic disease. Pandemics have catastrophic effects. So isn't international mobility itself a root cause of what we're enduring? Shouldn't we reconsider the 'age of mobility'? A thread on my new research with rockstar @ThomasGinnDC—>
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Great news. But, when you expect <2 events and observe zero, need to be a little bit cautious about making this leap... https://t.co/obF8GVWTVp
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So it goes with the election. Jan 20 will come and Trump will leave. But, if we lose steam now, we risk greatly diminishing the value of our achievements thus far. The election isn't over. Republicans are at work right now to elect racists and crooks in GA to hold the Senate.
We all need to keep two seemingly contradictory facts in mind 1. We are entering the hardest days of the pandemic. The next two months will see a lot of infections and deaths 2. there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Today, that light got a bit brighter Be safe. Mask up
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READ. THIS. THREAD. 👇👇 👇 Highly informative thread by a very smart hard math trained French bank analyst writing under a pseudonym taking apart the French #SecondWave #coronavirus data. Presumably broadly applicable to the rest of Europe and the US. @udarnik @catjacarol01
Last Friday, Macron floated the idea of a new general lockdown in France. Ouch. And because I’m fed up with reading so much garbage and contradictory stuff on Covid, I decided to have a hard look at the French data. A (long but important) thread.
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