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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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University autonomy : improving educational output : universities deliver more competent graduates and higher quality research if they are more autonomous and well-funded
Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2016
universities would provide better educational outcomes and have a direct impact on labor market productivity. However, the debate …
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Parenthood and productivity of highly skilled labor : evidence from the groves of academe
Krapf, Matthias; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Zimmermann, … - 2014
We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the … find that motherhood is associated with low research productivity. Nor do we find a statistically significant unconditional … effect of a first child on research productivity. Conditional difference-in-differences estimates, however, suggest that the …
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The third mission in the academic profession : empirical insights into academic identities
Püttmann, Vitus; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2022
In line with the growing relevance of higher education and science for societal development and innovation processes, there has been a steady increase in the salience of interrelations with the extra-academic environment in the context of academics' work. Insights into the status of this...
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Gendered language in academic evaluations : evidence from the Italian university system
Casamonti, Matilde; Zinovyeva, Natalia - 2024
observe that the language used in evaluation reports varies significantly with applicants' productivity and professional ties …
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Startups by Recent University Graduates and their Faculty - Implications for University Entrepreneurship Policy
Astebro, Thomas B.; Bazzazian, Navid; Braguinsky, Serguey - 2013
Earlier research on the role of universities in fostering entrepreneurial economic development almost exclusively covers spin-offs by faculty and staff. In contrast, we provide general evidence from the U.S. showing that the gross flow of science and engineering university graduates’ start-ups...
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Uzbekistan's higher education and research system : main actors and recent reforms of doctoral graduation
Wegmarshaus, Gert-Rüdiger - 2017
The objective of this study is to examine the conditions of higher education and the reform of doctoral graduation in Uzbekistan. The current system operates under strict government control. The President, the Supreme Attestation Commission at the Cabinet of Ministers regulating and monitoring...
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Like father(s), like son(s) : does the relation between advisor and student productivity persist on group level?
Breuninger, Susanne; Pull, Kerstin; Pferdmenges, Birgit - In: Zeitschrift für Personalforschung : ZfP 26 (2012) 4, pp. 331-345
relation between supervisor research productivity and young researcher productivity does persist in research groups where … Foundation. We find that the positive relation between supervisor and student productivity also holds on group level. Controlling … productivity ; research groups ; group composition ; supervision …
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