The environmental cost of the international job market for economists

Autor: Chanel, Olivier, Prati, Alberto, Raux, Morgan
Přispěvatelé: Aix-Marseille Sciences Economiques (AMSE), École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), The University of Mississippi [Oxford], London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), University of Luxembourg [Luxembourg], ANR-17-EURE-0020,AMSE (EUR),Aix-Marseille School of Economics(2017), ANR-11-IDEX-0001,Amidex,INITIATIVE D'EXCELLENCE AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITE(2011)
Rok vydání: 2022
Předmět:
Environmental impact
International job market
Economics and Econometrics
Comprehensive economic cost
JEL: A - General Economics and Teaching/A.A1 - General Economics/A.A1.A11 - Role of Economics • Role of Economists • Market for Economists
JEL: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics/Q.Q5 - Environmental Economics/Q.Q5.Q56 - Environment and Development • Environment and Trade • Sustainability • Environmental Accounts and Accounting • Environmental Equity • Population Growth
Job market for economists
JEL: Q - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics • Environmental and Ecological Economics/Q.Q5 - Environmental Economics/Q.Q5.Q51 - Valuation of Environmental Effects
[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance
Carbon footprint
JEL: J - Labor and Demographic Economics/J.J4 - Particular Labor Markets/J.J4.J44 - Professional Labor Markets • Occupational Licensing
General Environmental Science
Zdroj: Ecological Economics
Ecological Economics, 2022, 201, pp.107565. ⟨10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107565⟩
ISSN: 0921-8009
1873-6106
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2022.107565
Popis: International audience; We provide an estimate of the environmental impact of the recruitment system in the economics profession, known as the “international job market for economists”. Each year, most graduating PhDs seeking jobs in academia, government, or companies participate in this job market. The market follows a standardized process, where candidates are pre-screened in a short interview which takes place at an annual meeting in Europe or in the United States. Most interviews are arranged via a non-profit online platform, econjobmarket.org, which kindly agreed to share its anonymized data with us. Using this dataset, we estimate the individual environmental impact of 1057 candidates and one hundred recruitment committees who attended the EEA and AEA meetings in December 2019 and January 2020. We calculate that this pre-screening system generated the equivalent of about 4800 tons of avoidable CO2-eq and a comprehensive economic cost over €4.4 million. We contrast this overall assessment against three counterfactual scenarios: an alternative in-person system, a hybrid system (where videoconference is used for some candidates) and a fully online system (as it happened in 2020–21 due to the COVID-19 pandemic). Overall, the study can offer useful information to shape future recruitment standards in a more sustainable way.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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