The growing internationalization of European Higher Education requires more emphasis on cross-country comparisons. In this paper, an efficiency analysis of Italian and Spanish universities is conducted; as well as from a comparative perspective. The efficiency scores are obtained using Data...

The present paper comes up with a simple model, applying which the Internal Quality Assurance Cell of a college can identify, based on different attributes, the department which is the best performing one in the college and which are the ones lagging behind. It also identifies the area in which...

This study investigates the impact of single-sex versus coeducational schooling on students' decisions to pursue STEM fields at the university level. Using administrative data from eight undergraduate cohorts (2012-2019) at a prominent Australian university, we compare students with similar...

This paper analyzes the differences in wage ratios of university graduates to less than university graduates, the education premium, in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2000. Both countries experienced a similar increase in the fraction of university graduates and a similar increase in...

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...

This paper investigates relative earnings of individuals leaving tertiary education without a degree across 18 European countries employing survey data on adult workers. We find that, on average, university dropouts earn 8% more than those never enrolling into tertiary education, but 25% less...

The performance appraisal and compensation aspects in the public and private universities have growing importance. Even publicly funded universities have to seek for additional resources from private market and thus monitor and develop their performance accordingly. The purpose of this study is...

The paper springs from the real fact that Romanian higher education area needs to be designed and governed in connection with current economic and management trends. Taking into account that Romanian higher education quality systems did not manage to guarantee and gear teaching and learning...

Provides in-depth analysis of excessive executive compensation at the 20 wealthiest Massachusetts private colleges and universities during 2008-09, the academic year of the financial crisis. Analyzes both disclosed and undisclosed compensation packages as well as income inequality between highly...