Picking a career. Interestingly, economics tends to have the largest absolute increase in salary over one's career. It seems like there is an interesting economics question about to what extent the higher salaries are due to being more difficult majors and the students being smarter and the value added from the major.
Related Posts
Do environmentalists understand that if you make bicycling take a long time fewer people will do it?This is pretty funny. Environmentalists want everyone to bicycle to work, but if you make it unattractive enough, not - The Financial Times could use a good economics lessonThis article by Lisa Pollack in the Financial Times assumes that making investments isn't productive. I would argue th
- House passes credit-card curbs, debate moves to SenateFrom the WSJ.Many Senate Democrats want stricter limits on card companies' ability to raise rates on consumers who are
- EPA wants to mandate even higher Ethanol MixThe government thinking of raising the ethanol blend to 15% to bail out farmers and the biofuel business:The agency Thu
- One way to raise the cost of food to college studentsGuess what. When the marginal cost of food is zero students waste huge amounts of food. Rather than putting a price o
- Federal Salaries going up quickly during recessionIt has long been know that people rarely leave their Federal jobs, that the turnover rate is much lower than for privat
Salaries for careers: study engineering and economics?
4/
5
Oleh
abudzar
