The university career systems of five hegemonic European and American countries are ideal-typically described, contrasted and visualized using official academic staff statistics – the German habilitation-model, the French habilitation-and-tenure model, the British tenure-model, the tenure...

A significant amount of German and French career agents are involved with international careers. Applying Bourdieu’s Theory of Practice, Matthias Walther compares the repatriation of German and French career agents into the external labor markets of their parent country career fields. A...

Some names, especially those with biblical origins, are very popular in the United States. But this then gives rise to an interesting question: Does a good given name lead to a better life and career success? Researchers have shown that the names of job applicants can affect their chances of...