Utilizing data for comparable BSc graduates in economics who have studied in different universities that had set the same entry standards, we compare job seekers' employment prospects when they search by themselves for jobs by submitting CVs to the same firms. The outcomes suggest that graduates...

In light of Professor Colander’s assessments, a strategy should be developed in Turkey that 1) sets out priority research areas that are consistent with Turkey’s strategic plans and 2) establishes an incentive system to spur researchers in our field.

This paper presents methodology and results of a methodological evaluation of the research capital of Czech economics departments and research institutions, and of the research performance of individual economists in the Czech Republic, as measured by publication history and citation records in...

Prof. Colander's paper will no doubt go a long way towards overcoming the first and most formidable hurdle in front of us, namely making the Turkish academic community—in the social sciences in general and economics in particular—recognize that there is a “relevance of research” problem....

This paper presents "micro" results of empirical analysis of 1235 individual publication records of 1300 economists in the Czech Republic retrieved from international databases Web of Science and EconLit for the period 1994-2003. Publication portfolio described by research publication flows from...

This paper discusses the methodology of quantitative measures of research output. The authors illustrate various approaches to the contentious issue of to how to treat co-authored papers, how to best affiliate migrating authors, and how to quantify the quality of economic periodicals. The...