productivity, departmental amenities and locational amenities. The theoretical discussion is followed by exploratory and … illustrative empirical work. In summary, the reported regressions show that increased teaching loads and secretaries per faculty …

output in the empirical analysis. While several studies chose to use the number of publications, others rely on the overall … universities. Besides the amount of research grants and the absolute number of publications, the number of publications belonging …

productivity-enhancing (human capital) returns seem to be less pronounced. Over the expected course of career, we find lasting …

-individual fixed effects models, we document substantial expected labor market returns from signaling, whereas perceived productivity …

productivity-enhancing (human capital) returns seem to be less pronounced. Over the expected course of career, we find lasting …