Productivity pay-offs from academic mobility: should I stay or should I go?

Ana Fernández-Zubieta, Aldo Geuna and Cornelia Lawson
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Industrial and Corporate Change, 2016, vol. 25, issue 1, 91-114

Abstract: This article analyses the impact of interorganizational mobility on academic performance. We develop a theoretical framework based on the job-matching approach adapted for researchers. The empirical analysis studies the careers of a sample of 171 UK academics, spanning 1957–2005. We find no evidence that mobility per se increases academic performance. Only mobility to "better" departments has a positive weakly significant impact, while downward mobility reduces researchers’ productivity. Job mobility is always associated with a short-term decrease in performance.

Date: 2016
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