The 2020 European Job Market will be held in Nottingham, United Kingdom, in December. The EJM is co-sponsored by EEA, RES and SEA.

Please view this video to see what the EUROPEAN JOB MARKET is about.

Why a European Job Market?

Under the current system, some European institutions recruit in the US job market, some participate in the local job markets in Spain or in the UK, and many do not participate in any international job market. For the latter group, attending the existing markets is too costly relative to their perceived ability to identify candidates who would realistically accept a job.

A pan-European job market will provide a thicker and better functioning platform that can take advantage of economies of scale, move beyond national borders and make connections that would not otherwise happen.

The advantages will be:

a) Higher quality matches between candidates and European institutions. Employers will be able to interview a larger set of candidates and with a signal that these students are indeed serious applicants interested in working in Europe. A key gain will be to get more universities to hire on the international market.

b) Better placement of PhD students from European universities. While the very best students from the very best institutions would presumably still get offers through the ASSA job market, a large fraction of students would get access to jobs that they would not otherwise know about or be selected for.

We want to strive for the highest quality research we can achieve here in Europe - and one key way to do that is to have better matching of bright young economists with universities and research institutions.  As economists, we spend a lot of time analyzing markets and how to make them work better - now we’re turning our focus on better design for a market that is central to all of our professional lives - the EEA job market will provide a new impetus to the European economic research community, further stimulating cutting edge scientific work with great potential for impact.

What is the Job Market?

The initiative follows the model of the Allied Social Sciences Association (ASSA) meetings and evolves in four phases:

1. Employers post job offers on a centralized platform and candidates submit their “packages” (constituted by their research output and reference letters). This occurs in October-early November.
2. Recruiters review the packages and form shortlists of candidates to be invited for a preliminary screening through face to face interviews.
3. The interview phase takes place in a Euopean city. The EJM co-organisers facilitate the logistics by providing meeting rooms for the recruiters, and organising a keynote lecture, and a workshop for candidates.
4. The candidates who pass the interview stage are invited for “flyouts” where they give seminars in the host institutions and meet with the local faculty. The preferred candidates are offered a job.

How to Sign for EJM 2020

If you are an INSTITUTION wishing to interview, please fill in the application form OPENS JULY 2020 and send it to admin@eeassoc.org ASAP (we assign meeting rooms on a first-come, first-served basis).

If you are a Job Market CANDIDATE, please note that you have to be a member of the EEA to take part. REGISTRAION OPENS SEPTEMBER 15.

Registration to the EJM entitles all CANDIDATES to membership of the RES and SEA (details will be sent out after the EJM).

All EJM candidates should read the information here.

Accommodation and Hotel Bookings

Participants will be responsible for their own accommodation arrangements.

There is a range of hotel accommodation in Nottingham suitable for all budgets. However, due to high demand in December, the EEA advise participants to make their reservation as early as possible.

To find other hotels that are close to the EJM locations, please zoom in on the Google map here (COMING SOON) and look for the hotel symbol (this has a bed on it).
 

Supporters

The EEA publicly thanks the Unicredit Foundation for their kind donations for the 2018 and 2019 EJM.

Advertising Positions and Sharing Materials for EEA Job Market

EEA's partner organization EconJobMarket.org (EJM) handled the search listings (job advertisements), the transmission of applications and letters of recommendation, and interview scheduling for the European Job Market. Therefore, it is used by students who are on the Job Market and institutions interviewing for available positions. Please download the info sheet here for full information.

Resources from the 2018 Inaugural Job Market

From the session - How to Present your Job Market Paper - at the 2018 Job Market: Kjetil Storesletten Ten Commandments - Storesletten and Eliana La Ferrara How to Present your Job Market

The EEA has complied a guide for European Job Market candidates. Please click here to download it.

Full info on the 2018 EJM can be found here

Full info on the 2019 EJM can be found here