the covariates are observed in two different datasets that cannot be linked. This type of data combination problem arises …

comprehensive analysis of the types of historical data most commonly used in economic research and discuss a variety of issues that …The use of historical data has become a standard tool in economics, serving three main purposes: to examine the …

Using firm-level data covering the 27 EU countries, the UK and the US, we show that employers tend to reduce investment …

2007-2012 using a survey of employers, such as universities, institutions of applied higher education and research … view, assumes significant growth in research funding, which the respondents mostly did not believe would occur, despite it … ; research and development ; academic fields …

Using data on executive compensation for the German chemical industry, we investigate the relevance of two theoretical … executive’s internal career. Our data show that bonus payments are mostly prevalent among senior executives at higher hierarchy … levels and rather for management jobs than for jobs in research and development. This is true for the whole chemical sector …

analyze the perceptions and attitudes of postdocs regarding their research incentives, their working conditions, and their … training to academic or non-academic jobs. Only about half of the postdocs sees strong incentives for academic research, but … better career prospects and higher research incentives compared to others. Academic career prospects and motivation are …

, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data …'s future research output. After adjustment for a range of personal and institutional characteristics, departmental research …

concern is that a "new class of research person will emerge" that uses data, which were gathered by other researchers, for … of data sharing by research communities by introducing citations of data sets, bestowing awards for good datasets, and … considering data "production" when assessing scientists' career prospects, funding applications, and research outputs. …

We test how a reduction in travel cost affects the rate and direction of scientific research. Using a fine …

Based on a unique time-use survey of academic researchers in Japan, this study finds that research time decreases over … decrease in research time. We also show that the decrease of research time partly explains why the research output of older … research output. …