Sweet dreams are made of this: The lying-down desk has landed | City A.M.
19 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in managerial economics, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: Japan
By the Numbers: How Dangerous Is It to Be a Cop?
17 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in occupational choice, personnel economics Tags: health and safety
Be Afraid. Be A Little Afraid: The Threat of Terrorism from Western Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq | Brookings Institution
14 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of crime, managerial economics, occupational regulation, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: Jihadists, war against terror
Complex Model of Foreign Fighter Radicalization
via The Threat of Terrorism from Western Foreign Fighters in Syria and Iraq | Brookings Institution.
For those who are job-hunting after the holidays
12 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in job search and matching, personnel economics Tags: search and matching
I find the biggest mistake made at job interviews at the interview panel forget that you are interviewing them as prospective employer.
If they can’t even be polite and friendly to you before you work for them, imagine what they’re like every day.
About 20% of the people I’ve met at job interviews I would never want to work with, much less work for.
Thomas C. Schelling on why international terrorism is so rare
09 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in applied price theory, defence economics, economics of crime, industrial organisation, managerial economics, occupational choice, organisational economics, personnel economics, politics - USA, Thomas Schelling, war and peace Tags: terrorism, Thomas Schelling, war against terror
The epic photos of the ill-fated Ernest Shackleton expedition
25 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in economic history, organisational economics, personnel economics Tags: Ernest Shackleton
Impact of Social Sciences – Scientific Misbehavior in Economics: Unacceptable research practice linked to perceived pressure to publish.
23 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
How Your Face Shapes Your Economic Chances – The Atlantic
23 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in labour economics, personnel economics, population economics, survivor principle Tags: economics of beauty
Attractive CEOs raise their company’s stock price when they first appear on television, according to a working paper by Joseph T. Halford and Hung-Chia Hsu at the University of Wisconsin.
Taller people are richer. In fact, every inch between 5’7” and 6 feet is “worth” about 2 percent more in average annual earnings.
Being better looking than at least 67 percent of your peers is worth about $230,000 over your lifetime.
Having blond hair is worth as much as a year of school—for women.
Being an obese white woman is particularly punishing for your potential lifetime earnings.
via How Your Face Shapes Your Economic Chances – The Atlantic.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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