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Academic careers: a cross-country perspective
Janger, Jürgen; Strauss-Kollin, Anna; Campbell, David F. J. - 2013
Asymmetric international mobility of highly talented scientists is well documented. We try contributing to the explanation of this phenomenon, looking at the "competitiveness" of higher education systems in terms of being able to attract talented scientists in their field. We characterise...
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Career choices in academia
Janger, Jürgen; Nowotny, Klaus - 2013
Based on a unique survey, we conduct a stated choice experiment to examine the determinants of career choice in academia. Both early and later stage researchers value a balance between teaching and research, appropriate salaries, working with high-quality peers and good availability of external...
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Career choices in academia
Janger, Jürgen; Nowotny, Klaus - 2013 - Preliminary version, August 1, 2013
Based on a unique survey, we conduct a stated choice experiment to examine the determinants of career choice in academia. Both early and later stage researchers value a balance between teaching and research, appropriate salaries, working with high-quality peers and good availability of external...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191910
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Monopsony Power in Higher Education : A Tale of Two Tracks
Goolsbee, Austan D. - 2019
This paper tests for and measures monopsony power in the U.S. higher education labor market. It does so by directly … demand instruments. The results indicate that schools have significant monopsony power over their tenure track faculty. Its …-tenure track faculty, however, universities do not seem to have any monopsony power and instead face perfectly elastic residual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866701
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Monopsony Power in Higher Education : A Tale of Two Tracks
Goolsbee, Austan - 2019
This paper tests for and measures monopsony power in the U.S. higher education labor market. It does so by directly … demand instruments. The results indicate that schools have significant monopsony power over their tenure track faculty. Its …-tenure track faculty, however, universities do not seem to have any monopsony power and instead face perfectly elastic residual …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480018
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Monopsony power in higher education : a tale of two tracks
Goolsbee, Austan; Syverson, Chad - 2019
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Monopsony power in higher education : a tale of two tracks
Goolsbee, Austan; Syverson, Chad - In: Journal of labor economics : JOLE 41 (2023), pp. S257-S290
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The urban wage premium in imperfect labour markets
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2016
Using administrative data for West Germany, this paper investigates whether part of the urban wage premium stems from fierce competition in thick labour markets. We first establish that employers possess less wage-setting power in denser markets. Local differences in wage-setting power predict...
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Labor market imperfections and the firm's wage setting policy
Félix, Sónia; Portugal, Pedro - 2016
that firm's monopsony power affects negatively the earnings of its workers and firm's total factor productivity is … considerably associated with higher earnings, ceteris paribus. We also find that firms use monopsony power for wage differentiation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543455
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The urban wage premium in imperfect labour markets
Hirsch, Boris; Jahn, Elke J.; Oberfichtner, Michael - 2016
Using administrative data for West Germany, this paper investigates whether part of the urban wage premium stems from fierce competition in thick labour markets. We first establish that employers possess less wage-setting power in denser markets. Local differences in wage-setting power predict...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449766