使用LSAT作为律师的劳动力市场温度计

IF 0.9 4区经济学 Q3 ECONOMICS

American Journal of Economics and Sociology Pub Date : 2022-12-12 DOI:10.1111/ajes.12488

James V. Koch, Barbara Blake-Gonzalez

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摘要

我们依靠50个州、20年的调查小组发现，法学院入学考试(LSAT)考生的数量与经济状况只有松散的关系——尽管男性的比例略高于女性，女性在2020年占所有LSAT考生的58%。从2014年到2020年，参加考试的人数增长了35%以上。这一波浪潮加剧了律师实际收入中位数已经存在的下降趋势，从而为大多数州的律师数量超过需求的假设提供了支持。一个社会会有太多的律师吗?律师数量存在一个最佳数量的假设，超过这个数量，更多的律师将扼杀经济增长，这仍然是一个重要而有争议的话题，引发了尖锐的评论(其中最突出的是加兰特)

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Using the LSAT as a labor market thermometer for lawyers

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Using the LSAT as a labor market thermometer for lawyers

We rely upon a 50-state, 20-year panel to find that the number of Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) takers is only loosely related to economic conditions—although slightly more for men than for women, who in 2020 accounted for 58% of all LSAT takers. The number of test takers rose more than 35% between 2014 and 2020. This wave accentuated an already existing downtrend in the median real income of lawyers, and thus provides support for the hypothesis that most states have more lawyers than they need.

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American Journal of Economics and Sociology Multiple-

CiteScore

1.90

自引率

12.50%

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期刊介绍： The American Journal of Economics and Sociology (AJES) was founded in 1941, with support from the Robert Schalkenbach Foundation, to encourage the development of transdisciplinary solutions to social problems. In the introduction to the first issue, John Dewey observed that “the hostile state of the world and the intellectual division that has been built up in so-called ‘social science,’ are … reflections and expressions of the same fundamental causes.” Dewey commended this journal for its intention to promote “synthesis in the social field.” Dewey wrote those words almost six decades after the social science associations split off from the American Historical Association in pursuit of value-free knowledge derived from specialized disciplines. Since he wrote them, academic or disciplinary specialization has become even more pronounced. Multi-disciplinary work is superficially extolled in major universities, but practices and incentives still favor highly specialized work. The result is that academia has become a bastion of analytic excellence, breaking phenomena into components for intensive investigation, but it contributes little synthetic or holistic understanding that can aid society in finding solutions to contemporary problems. Analytic work remains important, but in response to the current lop-sided emphasis on specialization, the board of AJES has decided to return to its roots by emphasizing a more integrated and practical approach to knowledge.