Coupé, Tom; Smeets, Valérie; Warzynski, Frederic - 2006
In this paper we study empirically the labor market of economists. We look at the mobility and promotion patterns of a … sample of 1,000 top economists over thirty years and link it to their productivity and other personal characteristics. We … also find evidence that economists respond to incentives. They tend to exert more effort at the beginning of their career …
