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Are Universities Important for Explaining Unequal Participation in Student Mobility? A Comparison between Germany, Hungary, Italy and the UK
Schnepf, Sylke Viola - 2020
Policies supporting international student mobility prepare young people for the challengesof global and multicultural environments. However, disadvantaged students have lowerparticipation rates in mobility schemes, and hence benefit less from their positive impactson career progression....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836557
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Social Ties in Academia : A Friend is a Treasure
Colussi, Tommaso - 2015
This paper employs a unique dataset on articles, authors and editors of the top general interest journals in economics … to investigate the role of social connections in the publication process. Ties between editors and authors are identified … increase in their publication outcomes when this editor is in charge of a journal. The analysis of articles' citations suggests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013013584
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How Well are Women Represented at the AEA Meeting? A Study of the 1985-2010 Programs
Thomas Cunningham, Rosemary - 2012
, economics still lags many other fields. Previous research has documented gender gaps in tenure, promotion and publication, some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104967
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Pay and Job Rank Amongst Academic Economists in the UK : Is Gender Relevant?
Mumford, Karen - 2019
academic Economists in the UK. Characteristics associated with individual productivity and workplace features are found to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868008
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Lessons from the Laureates
Breit, William - 2009
This paper uses as source material twenty-three autobiographical essays by Nobel economists presented since 1984 at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012765099
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The Academic Origins of Economics Faculty
Jones, Todd; Sloan, Arielle - 2022
We use roster data of 96 top U.S. economics departments to document the academic origins of their tenure-track faculty. Academic origins may have implications for how undergraduate (B.A.) and doctoral (Ph.D.) students are trained and placed, as well as the type of research produced. We find that...
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Early Career Research Production in Economics : Does Mentoring Matter?
García-Suaza, Andrés - 2018
We assess the role played by advisory supervision on the early stage productivity of recent PhDs in economics using a tailor-made data set based on RePEc. After allowing for the potential effects of other relevant determinants, including gender and field of specialisation, we find as expected...
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Monetary and Social Incentives in Multi-Tasking : The Ranking Substitution Effect
Stefan, Matthias - 2020
Rankings are prevalent information and incentive tools in labor markets with strong competition for talent. In a dynamic model of multi-tasking and an accompanying experiment with financial professionals, we identify hidden ranking costs when performance in one task is incentivized and ranked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831230
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Adverse Selection and Incentives in an Early Retirement Program
Whelan, Kenneth - 2011
We evaluate potential determinants of enrollment in an early retirement incentive program for non-tenure-track employees at a large university. Using administrative records on the eligible population of employees not covered by collective bargaining agreements, historical employee count and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119008
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A Walk on the Wild Side : 'Predatory' Journals and Information Asymmetries in Scientific Evaluations
Bagues, Manuel F. - 2017
In recent years the academic world has experienced a mushrooming of journals that falsely pretend to be legitimate … academic outlets. We study this phenomenon using information from 46,000 researchers seeking promotion in Italian academia …. About 5% of them have published in journals included in the blacklist of 'potential, possible, or probable predatory …
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