nep-sog 2005-11-12 papers

on Sociology of Economics

Issue of 2005‒11‒12
two papers chosen by
Jonas Holmström
Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration

The job satisfaction of English academics and their intentions to quit academe By Philip Stevens
Identifying Age, Cohort and Period Effects in Scientific Research Productivity: Discussion and Illustration Using Simulated and Actual Data on French Physicists By Bronwyn H. Hall; Jacques Mairesse; Laure Turner

The job satisfaction of English academics and their intentions to quit academe

By:	Philip Stevens
Abstract:	This paper considers the job satisfaction of academics using a detailed dataset of over two thousand academics from ten English higher education institutions. The results of our analysis suggest that one would be wrong to consider one single measure of job-satisfaction. Academics appear to be considering three separate sets of elements of their jobs, namely the pecuniary factors (both the salary and the ability to earn money from additional work. We also consider the influence of these elements of job satisfaction on their intentions to leave the sector.
Date:	2005–10
URL:	http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nsr:niesrd:262&r=sog

Identifying Age, Cohort and Period Effects in Scientific Research Productivity: Discussion and Illustration Using Simulated and Actual Data on French Physicists

By:	Bronwyn H. Hall; Jacques Mairesse; Laure Turner
Abstract:	The identification of age, cohort (vintage), and period (year) effects in a panel of individuals or other units is an old problem in the social sciences, but one that has not been much studied in the context of measuring researcher productivity. In the context of a semi-parametric model of productivity where these effects are assumed to enter in an additive manner, we present the conditions necessary to identify and test for the presence of the three effects. In particular we show that failure to specify precisely the conditions under which such a model is identified can lead to misleading conclusions about the productivity-age relationship. We illustrate our methods using data on the publications 1986-1997 by 465 French condensed matter physicists who were born between 1936 and 1960.
JEL:	C23 O31 J44
Date:	2005–11
URL:	http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:nbr:nberwo:11739&r=sog

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