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Success in the Academic Labour Market for Economics - The German Experience

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  • Heining, Jörg
  • Jerger, Jürgen
  • Lingens, Jörg

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Based on CV information of tenured professors and post-doc researchers in the field of economics at German universities we construct a unique data set. This data set contains detailed information on the career path and on personal characteristics of individuals. Using this data we analyse the determinants of success in the academic labour market. Our notion of success is the (conditional) probability of becoming tenured, i.e. the hazard rate. Estimating a Cox (1972) regression model, we show that the primal determinants of the hazard rate are the publication record and time dummies which control for the decade in which tenure was received. The latter result implies that Germany witnessed a huge structural change in the academic labour within the last 30 years. Aus Lebenslaufdaten von bereits berufenen Professoren und promovierten Nachwuchswissenschaftlern an deutschen Universitäten im Bereich Volkswirtschaftslehre haben wir einen einzigartigen Datensatz konstruiert. Dieser Datensatz enthält detaillierte Informationen über den (akademischen) Erwerbsverlauf der beobachteten Individuen, sowie zusätzliche individuelle Charakteristika. Unter Verwendung dieser Daten untersuchen wir die Determinanten für den Erfolg im akademischen Arbeitsmarkt, wobei wir Erfolg über die bedingte Wahrscheinlichkeit (Hazard Rate) für die Berufung auf eine Lebenszeitprofessur messen. Unter Verwendung eines Regressionsmodells nach Cox (1972) können wir zeigen, dass die individuelle Publikationsleistung, sowie Zeitdummies für das Jahrzehnt der Berufung signifikanten Einfluss auf die Hazard Rate ausüben. Dabei deutet insbesondere das zuletzt genannte Ergebnis auf einen starken strukturellen Wandel im deutschen akademischen Arbeitsmarkt innerhalb der letzten 30 Jahre hin.

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  • Heining, Jörg & Jerger, Jürgen & Lingens, Jörg, 2007. "Success in the Academic Labour Market for Economics - The German Experience," University of Regensburg Working Papers in Business, Economics and Management Information Systems 422, University of Regensburg, Department of Economics.
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