EconJobMarket®

About

Econ Job Market^® Inc. (EJM) is a nonprofit charity (a 501c3 organization). EJM's main aim is to improve the flow of information in the job market for academic economists, by providing a central repository for job-market materials (at EconJobMarket.org) and by encouraging interoperability between the various recruitment systems that recruiters use. EJM exists mainly to serve other nonprofit organizations that engage in the academic job market (colleges, universities, government agencies, and their staff and students). To this end, it also serves for-profit companies that recruit academic economists. EJM is managed and directed by representatives from the academic community and professional economics associations.

The Directors are unpaid and the Officers serve on a mostly volunteer basis. EJM's commitment to low fees is central to its charter and 501c3 status, to encourage use of EJM's centralized database and reduce negative externalities. EJM's revenue is used to pay for basic business expenses, hosting, technical support, small stipends for senior officers, and mostly to compensate student workers.

EconJobMarket was founded by Martin Osborne (University of Toronto), John Rust (Georgetown University), and Joel Watson (University of California, San Diego). They had each created Internet-based application systems at their individual universities and realized that further efficiency gains could be realized with a central repository.

Since it was launched in mid-September 2007, EJM has grown to become the profession's choice for transmitting job-market materials. Virtually all candidates use EJM to apply for jobs, and the number of recruiters using the system has grown substantially each year.

EconJobMarket is the official job market site of the Econometric Society, the European Economic Association, and the Canadian Economic Association. These professional associations are not responsible for the content of the advertisements posted on EJM, and they may separately promote their principles to their members. EconJobMarket is also endorsed by the Society for Economic Dynamics, the Eurasia Business and Economics Society, VoxEU, the Swiss Society of Economics and Statistics, and Verein Für Socialpolitik. In 2012, Walras.org (a service with much the same aim as EconJobMarket) was merged into EconJobMarket.

EconJobMarket exists for the public good. The organization commits not to sell user information to any third parties. Its current sources of revenue are modest fees to recruiters and voluntary contributions from users of the system. The fees are set to just cover operating costs.

Users who need assistance should submit a Support Request or email one of the officers.

Econ Job Market Inc
3268 Governor Dr. # 328
San Diego, CA 92122
858-432-3266 (858-432-ECON)

Directors, Officers, Contributors

Officers and Directors

Abigail (Abi) Adams (University of Oxford), Director
Otavio Bartalotti (Iowa State University), Director
Caterina Calsamiglia (Barcelona IPEG), Director
Nobu Kiyotaki (Princeton University), Director
Michael Lowry (San Diego Humane Society SVP/CFO), Chief Financial Officer
Martin J. Osborne (University of Toronto), Director, Chief Information Officer and Secretary
Michael Peters (University of British Columbia), Director and Chief Information Officer
John Rust (Georgetown University), Director
David Schindler (Tilburg University), Director
Joel Watson (UC San Diego), Director and Chief Executive Officer
Chris Chatfield (UC San Diego), Assistant Director

Advisory Board

Eric Bartelsman (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & Tinbergen Institute)
Hoyt Bleakley (University of Michigan)
Kirsten Cornelson (Western University)
Daniel Hamermesh (University of Texas at Austin)
Tomas Larroucau (Arizona State University)
David Margolis (Paris School of Economics)
Jeffrey Miron (Harvard University)
Marek Pycia (University of Zurich)

Past Directors and Officers

Raphael Auer (Swiss National Bank and Princeton), Director
Antonio Cabrales (University College London), Director
Drew Fudenberg (MIT), Director
David Levine (Washington University in St. Louis and European University Institute), Director
Rosa Matzkin (UCLA), Director
R. Preston McAfee (Chief Economist, Microsoft), Director
Stephen Morris (MIT), Director
E. Glen Weyl (Microsoft Research and University of Chicago), Director
Abigail Wozniak (Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis), Director
Pai Steven Xu (University of Hong Kong), Head of Asian Operations