Academic Mobility

BRAIN DRAIN, TALENT Brain Drain, Talent Mobility and Academic Networking

3/28/02 Teacher Mobility, Pay, and Academic Quality

In this paper the authors use a variety of administrative data to analyze the labor force dynamics of new public school teachers in Missouri. They find little contemporary evidence that high ability women are crowded into teaching. The effect of ACT scores on teacher mobility is similar for men and women. While women are much more likely than men to teach at any level of ability, the aversion o...

The position of cross-border and international academic mobility in the selected Iranian universities

Moving towards the entrepreneurial university is one of the key strategies to promote social responsibility and accountability of the university and achieve the goals of social change and sustainable development, and the entrepreneurial university is one of the important scenarios for effective participation of universities in the local, regional and national development process and strong pres...

Doctoral Degree Prestige and the Academic Marketplace: A Study of Career Mobility Within the Management Discipline

Using data collected from a national sample of 171 PhD holders, who were awarded terminal degrees in management between 1977 and 1987, we tested four hypotheses concerning career mobility within the management discipline. We found (1) doctoral origin prestige had a direct effect on the prestige of a graduate’s initial academic appointment, (2) doctoral origin prestige interacted with perceived ...

Geographic mobility advances careers: study of the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) program for women.

PURPOSE To explore whether geographic mobility is associated with career advancement of women in U.S. medical schools who are entering mid- to executive-level positions. METHOD Using an existing dataset of 351 participants in academic medicine who attended the Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Program for Women (1996-2005) (adjusted to 345 participants in some analyses because ...