Publish or.....Publish More

Here's a very insightful article about the shape of the production function in big-time academics.

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[Guan Yang]

So... do you write all your own papers?

;-)

[gborjas]

Yes! Plus I run all my own regressions. I personally find it very difficult to keep track of what research assistants do. I've learned that if I want to disseminate research findings that I can be confident of and that I know precisely where they came from, the easiest way to ensure that is to do it myself.

[HaL]

Some professors will expect you to give up evenings, weekends, etc. with minimal pay and minimal recognition for their projects. But hey, they don't know what type of regression to use or how to use a statistical program and they don't have time to do it so that's where you come in: to help produce their 50 journal articles a year.

[HaL]

Not that I'm against research assistant positions...just those where you're never listed as an author despite significant contributions...

[biscotti]

My conjecture is that the ghostwriting stuff is more likely to be seen in fields that appreciate published books more than journal articles.

When you present a 30-page economic paper, You have to know every detail (or at least most of them) in case of being questioned or beaten to death before even submitting it to a journal. When you talk about a 300-page book, it is less likely to happen. Furthermore, it is a lot easier for the peer reviewers to read a 30-page paper than a 300-page book.

[BO]

THERE IS AN OUTSTANDING QUOTE FROM DR BORJAS IN AN INTERVIEW HE JUST GAVE -

If there were no illegal immigration, and the demand was still there for gardeners and nannies, the price of those things would go up.

Illegal immigration is very highly regionalized, just like legal immigration. Does that mean that the rest of the country, between the two coasts, doesn’t function because there are no immigrants? That’s ridiculous. There are cabs in the middle of the country, believe it or not, there are gardeners.

It’s like the argument that immigrants do jobs that natives won’t do. That’s complete nonsense too. It’s a question of price. And one good by-product of all the current immigration controversy, I think, is that people now are getting that it’s complete nonsense

THANK YOU DR BORJAS

[Dee]

It appears Dr. B. never picked Cherries in Traverse City.

[pj]

mmigration is not a racial issue, it is a jobs issue.

In the UK, thousands of unskilled young citizens are now out of work due to influx of WHITE workers from poland.

500,000 fewer Britons in work following influx of Eastern Europeans
By JAMES SLACK - More by this author »

Last updated at 10:26am on 28th December 2007

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Half a million fewer Britons are in work following the unprecedented influx of migrants from Eastern Europe, it was disclosed last night.
MPs said the figure demolishes the Government's claim to be providing 'British jobs for British workers'.

Research by the independent House of Commons Library found that 24,473,000 people of working age born in the UK held jobs in 2003 – the year prior to the expansion of the EU.

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But the figure has now fallen to 23,948,000, a dramatic cut of 525,000 in the size of the home-grown workforce.

The library's research did not cover the number of jobs taken by foreigners over the same period. But the drop in the number of UK workers has been matched by a surge in arrivals from Poland and other former Eastern Bloc nations.

Since May 2004, when the EU expanded eastwards, 700,000 have registered with the Home Office to work here.

This will fuel suspicions that some UK workers are being forced out of the jobs market by migrants.

Shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green said: "Yet again Gordon Brown's dubious claim to provide 'British jobs for British workers' has been exposed as dishonest rhetoric.

"It is clear that the Government is doing the opposite."

Tory MP James Clappison, who unearthed the figures, said the key figure is the fall in the percentage of the UK's working-age population who have jobs – down from 75.7 per cent in 2003 to 75.2 per cent in 2007.

It dispels the Government's claim that immigrants are not taking jobs from British workers, but filling gaps left by a reduction in the size of the British-born workforce.

Instead, the figures suggest that a larger number of Britons of working age are finding themselves out of jobs.

Mr Clappison, a member of the Commons home affairs committee, said: "This is very worrying.

"Both the number of UK nationals of working age and the proportion of them is falling.

"This clearly shows the Government is failing in its objectives.

"At the same time, we are seeing an unprecedented influx from Eastern Europe and record numbers of work permits granted to workers from outside the EU, which is entirely at the Government's discretion."

The British Chamber of Com-merce has already warned that a generation of British children is at risk of going 'from school straight to welfare' while migrants fill skills shortages in the economy.

Director-general David Frost said 500,000 18 to 24-year-olds are out of work, but nobody noticed because immigrants had taken their place in the jobs market.

More than 100,000 young Britons may have been pushed into unemployment by the wave of Eastern European immigrants, an economic analysis on the impact of migration has revealed.

A study by the influential Ernst & Young ITEM Club, found that although the recent influx has boosted Britain's economy and kept inflation low, it may have increased unemployment for younger Britons and reduced pay rises for all.

[sinem]

thnks