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Monopsony power in higher education : a tale of two tracks
Goolsbee, Austan; Syverson, Chad - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062019
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Monopsony Power in Higher Education : A Tale of Two Tracks
Goolsbee, Austan D. - 2019
This paper tests for and measures monopsony power in the U.S. higher education labor market. It does so by directly … demand instruments. The results indicate that schools have significant monopsony power over their tenure track faculty. Its …-tenure track faculty, however, universities do not seem to have any monopsony power and instead face perfectly elastic residual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866701
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Monopsony Power in Higher Education : A Tale of Two Tracks
Goolsbee, Austan - 2019
This paper tests for and measures monopsony power in the U.S. higher education labor market. It does so by directly … demand instruments. The results indicate that schools have significant monopsony power over their tenure track faculty. Its …-tenure track faculty, however, universities do not seem to have any monopsony power and instead face perfectly elastic residual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480018
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Monopsony Power in Higher Education : A Tale of Two Tracks
Goolsbee, Austan - 2020
This paper tests for and measures monopsony power in the U.S. higher education labor market. It does so by directly … demand instruments. The results indicate that schools have significant monopsony power over their tenure track faculty. Its …-tenure track faculty, however, universities do not seem to have any monopsony power and instead face perfectly elastic residual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012848612
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Imperfect competition, compensating differentials and rent sharing in the U.S. labor market
Lamadon, Thibaut; Mogstad, Magne; Setzler, Bradley - 2019
The primary goal of our paper is to quantify the importance of imperfect competition in the U.S. labor market by estimating the size of rents earned by American firms and workers from ongoing employment relationships. To this end, we construct a matched employeremployee panel data set by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012105121
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Accounting for the growth of real wages of U.S. manufacturing production workers since the nineteenth century
Pencavel, John H. - 2024
Why have the real (consumption) wages of U.S. workers risen since the nineteenth century? Some economists answer that increases in real wages have followed increases in labor productivity over time. In this paper, this hypothesized association is confronted with annual observations of changes in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015074507
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Academic careers: a cross-country perspective
Janger, Jürgen; Strauss-Kollin, Anna; Campbell, David F. J. - 2013
Asymmetric international mobility of highly talented scientists is well documented. We try contributing to the explanation of this phenomenon, looking at the "competitiveness" of higher education systems in terms of being able to attract talented scientists in their field. We characterise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010431689
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Career choices in academia
Janger, Jürgen; Nowotny, Klaus - 2013
Based on a unique survey, we conduct a stated choice experiment to examine the determinants of career choice in academia. Both early and later stage researchers value a balance between teaching and research, appropriate salaries, working with high-quality peers and good availability of external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010431690
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Career choices in academia
Janger, Jürgen; Nowotny, Klaus - 2013 - Preliminary version, August 1, 2013
Based on a unique survey, we conduct a stated choice experiment to examine the determinants of career choice in academia. Both early and later stage researchers value a balance between teaching and research, appropriate salaries, working with high-quality peers and good availability of external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191910
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Putting the university to work : the subsumption of academic labour in UK's shift to digital higher education
Ivancheva, Mariya; Garvey, Brian - In: New technology, work and employment 37 (2022) 3, pp. 381-397
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013464597