Claudia Goldin Econ 490 fall 2019

Future income risk At the end of high school, you are at a point in your life where you have to decide what to do in the future. I went in an art high school with focus on media design and photography. I chose this school because my biggest hobby was art and I thought that you should do what you like because then you are always good at it. Going to that school was a lot of fun and I liked my decision. We went to a lot of photography galleries, museums and learned how to do pictures professionally. Moreover, we produced the photos by ourselves in a darkroom. I learned a lot in this field but after visiting this school it was clear for me that I will keep art as a hobby but will not spend my future life with art and photography. One other reason why I haven’t chosen to go to an art university was that my teachers were not able to have fixed incomes with art so they had to become teachers.  In this school, I also had a good economic professor. This was the reason I chose ...

Reflection Post I began this class in the end of August with my first blog post. Now we have October, and I have already written about five different topics related to my Economic in Organization class. The first blog post was about my alias Claudia Goldin, who is one of ten most influential female economists in the world and a professor at Harvard University. The second post was about my experience with organizations in a change process. I wrote about my previous employer “Bank Austria” in Vienna and about their process of building a new headquarters, especially about the change process. The next blog post was about the effect of team leader’s behavior in organizations. I wrote about my employer in an insurance company before I went to my exchange semester. In this blog post I wrote about my team leader and the problems in our department. The next topic was quite similar to the blog post before. I wrote about the team structure in my first job. The biggest dif...

Illinibucks When I arrived in Urbana-Champaign in August the first thing I had to do is to register for my classes. The main problem for me was that a lot of students have priorities and you need administrative approval. This process took me three weeks, where I spoke nearly every day with my course coordinator. If I didn’t schedule my courses I would lose my visa status and my scholarship from my university. I was able to figure out the problem to get my courses for my visa status but I was only able to get 4 of 6 courses. Therefore, I cannot finish my Bachelor degree this semester like I had planned it. Moreover, I would use the “Illinibucks” to get my favorite professor. Especially as an exchange student I could only chose from a very small list of courses and these courses where all nearly at the same time. It was hard to get a full schedule and make a lot of credits. Because of this problem the productivity and the effectiveness in this semester is not that ...