Career choices in academia

Arbeitspapier

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 grants. Attractive academic jobs for early stage researchers feature in addition a combination of early independence and career (tenure) perspectives; later stage researchers favour jobs which make it easy to take up new lines of research, which pay according to a public scheme including a performance element and where research funding is provided by the university. Our findings have important implications for the structure of academic careers and for the organisational design of research universities. Furthermore, they shed light on the institutional determinants of the asymmetric mobility of highly talented scientists between the EU and the U. S.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Working Papers in Economics and Finance ; No. 2013-04

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Higher Education; Research Institutions ; Education and Economic Development ; Education: Government Policy
• Thema: academic careers ; academic labour market ; university organisation ; brain drain

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Janger, Jürgen ; Nowotny, Klaus
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): University of Salzburg, Department of Social Sciences and Economics
• (wo): Salzburg
• (wann): 2013

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/100639
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ