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Pierre-Philippe Combes, Laurent Linnemer and Michael Visser

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Abstract: This paper analyzes the determinants of success at the concours d'agrégation en sciences économiques. This is a centralized hiring procedure through which professors of economics are selected in France. Using detailed data from all concours held between 1984 and 2003, we focus on the role of the candidates' publication records (number and quality of articles) and networks (defined as professional links between candidates and the jury members who take the recruitment decisions). Both sets of variables have statistically significant effects on the likelihood of getting hired. The effect of network connections is important in the sense that a substantial improvement of the publication record is needed to compensate for not being linked to the jury.

Keywords: Employment; Hiring; Professional Network (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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Published in Labour Economics, 2008, 15 (3), pp.456-474. ⟨10.1016/j.labeco.2007.04.003⟩

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DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2007.04.003

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