Rise of the Permanent Temp Economy

Good New York Times summary of the history of the permanent low-wage temp economy.

This is an interesting article about the history of the part-time worker during the last few decades, and how low wage, long hours, part-time work is becoming the norm.

Read the classic Atlantic essay about the implications of the permanent underclass here.

Latin American Publications

Hola International Biz Students:

Here are some resources for academic journals, magazines and newspapers written in Spanish and sometimes Portuguese.

More importantly, these are PUBLICATIONS FROM LATIN AMERICA and the perspectives and topics will be quite different from North American ones.

Economia Y Negocios
HAPI Online

Career Sources Roundup

Here are some suggestions for your career search:


Use Reference USA look up any kind of business by geography, type, size, sales and cold call them for any available jobs.

Example: show me insurance companies with more than 20 employees in Texas, Colorado, and Florida.

The video focuses on identifying business competitors but it works for this purpose as well. 




Here are our books on job hunting-

Plus our books on:

interviewing

resumes


Overview Video on Getting Job Hunting Resources at Alkek:



Bonus:

Getting into Graduate School:

GMAT study books

GRE books

Online Practice Tests Here (GMAT, GRE, more)

Best Graduate Schools

Peterson's Graduate Schools 

Goodreads Account for the Library

Ever wonder what to read next or how to find those hidden gems only a librarian would know?

Here's the economics section of our GoodReads.

USDA Agricultural Data

Here's a list of food and agricultural data stats from the USDA.

Topics covered includes: Crop outlook and productivity, prices, supplies, organic, commodities and more.

Sample screen shot below.

Shadow Stats: The Alternate to Official Statistics

Here's a great way to uncover some of the -ahem- controversial methodology behind our official government numbers. The alleged motivation? A desire to beguile the masses, lower government payouts to social security (which is tied to inflation) and good old fashioned naivety.

Blogging cult favorite John Williams has a website that shows his reasoning about revising the official figures of inflation and unemployment (among other things).

Read about Mr. Williams and decide for yourself.

There is no shortage of critics of John Williams (just look around). Here's blogging legend Mish discussing Williams's GDP methodology.

What is Google Scholar?

Google Scholar searches the contents of many (but not all) academic journals. However, it does not provide access to the fulltext material. If you are off-campus, you will be prompted to log in or buy the article.

If you follow the Alkek Library link to Google Scholar here, you will have to sign in ONCE with your NET ID and then it's all clear sailing. 



In any case, please don't buy the article - you can get it through us.  If you hit a dead end, use interlibrary loan.

Google Scholar does not search ALL the scholarly literature because some publishers restrict access.