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Asali, Muhammad - 2018

Given asymmetric information, this paper explores the need for non-tenure-track jobs in academia alongside the usual tenure-track positions. It also explains the coexistence of these two types of jobs in research universities as an equilibrium phenomenon. The increased effort needed to produce...

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Publishing and Promotion in Economics : The Tyranny of the Top Five

Heckman, James J. - 2018

This paper examines the relationship between placement of publications in Top Five (T5) journals and receipt of tenure in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U.S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a...

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Career Lotto : Labor Supply in Winner-Take-All Markets

Grove, Wayne A. - 2019

, males would be 23% and females 5% less likely to continue pursuing a professional career, on average. Thus, winner …

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Researchers' Career Transitions Over the Life Cycle

Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2016

Based on a unique time-use survey of academic researchers in Japan, this study finds that research time decreases over the life cycle. The decrease in total hours worked and the increase in time spent on administrative tasks explain the decrease in research time. We also show that the decrease...

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If You Are So Smart, Why Aren't You an Entrepreneur? Returns to Cognitive and Social Ability : Entrepreneurs versus Employees

Hartog, Joop; van Praag, Mirjam; van der Sluis, Justin - 2021

How valuable are cognitive and social abilities for entrepreneurs' incomes as compared to employees? We answer three questions: (1) To what extent does a composite measure of ability affect an entrepreneur's earnings relative to employees? (2) Do different cognitive abilities (e.g. math ability,...

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The Expected (Signaling) Value of Higher Education

Ehrmantraut, Laura - 2020

productivity-enhancing (human capital) returns seem to be less pronounced. Over the expected course of career, we find lasting …

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Education and Early Career Outcomes of Second-Generation Immigrants in France

Belzil, Christian; Poinas, François - 2021

We estimate a flexible dynamic model of education choices and early career employment outcomes of the French population … the differences in access to early career employment stability. However, one third cannot be linked to observed investment …

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Leadership Experiences, Labor Market Entry, and Early Career Trajectories

Lundin, Martin - 2018

Matching archive data on election discontinuities to register data on labor market trajectories we estimate the causal effects of being elected into Swedish student union councils on subsequent labor market careers. Marginally elected students are much more likely to have a rapid transition into...

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Biased Beliefs and Entry into Scientific Careers

Ganguli, Ina - 2020

-doctoral training in science. We elicit the beliefs and career preferences of doctoral students through a novel survey and randomize the …-academic careers. One year later, both treatments lead students to update their beliefs about the academic market and impact career … preferences. However, we do not find an effect on actual career outcomes 2 years post-intervention …

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Early Career Research Production in Economics : Does Mentoring Matter?

García-Suaza, Andrés - 2018

We assess the role played by advisory supervision on the early stage productivity of recent PhDs in economics using a tailor-made data set based on RePEc. After allowing for the potential effects of other relevant determinants, including gender and field of specialisation, we find as expected...

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