As scientists' careers unfold, mobility can allow researchers to find environments where they
are more productive and more effectively contribute to the generation of new knowledge. In …

An extensive theoretical literature investigates the role of promotions as a signal of worker
ability. We extend the theory by focusing on how the signaling role of promotion varies with …

Data-sharing is an essential tool for replication, validation and extension of empirical results.
Using a hand-collected data set describing the data-sharing behaviour of 488 randomly …

Mentoring programs are increasingly widespread in academia. Still, comparatively little is
known about their effects. With the help of a self-collected dataset of 368 researchers in two …

During the past 30 years economics has made great progress in moving beyond treating the
firm as a “black box” and understanding various aspects of its internal operation. One area …

We examine the research productivity of German academic economists over their life cycles.
It turns out that the career patterns of research productivity as measured by journal …

Since the twenty-first century, universities in many countries, including China, have
introduced tenure-track employment to attract outstanding faculty. Through a survey of 1099 …

This paper investigates the determinants of tenure decisions in Germany, Austria and the
German-speaking part of Switzerland for professorships in economics, business …

This study examines the relationship between academic seniority and research productivity
through a study of a sample of academics at Australian law schools. To measure research …

In this paper, we study the spatial characteristics of a sample of 2605 highly productive
economists, and a subsample of 332 economists with outstanding productivity. Individual …