Do faculty salaries rise with job seniority?

Barbezat, Debra A.; Donihue, Michael R.

doi:10.1016/s0165-1765(97)00272-3

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“…There is a sizable literature on the earnings of men and women in academe, including studies by Bayer (1973), Bayer and Astin (1975) Tuckman and Tuckman (1976), Barbezat (1987aBarbezat ( , 1987bBarbezat ( , 1989Barbezat ( , 1991, Smart (1991), Ransom and Megdal (1993), Bellas (1993), Ashraf (1996), Barbezat and Donihue (1998), Toutkoushian (1998Toutkoushian ( , 1999, and Perna (2001Perna ( , 2002. Studies have been conducted both at individual institutions using data from personnel files, and from national datasets obtained by surveys of faculty.…”

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Progress For Women In Academe, Yet Inequities Persist: Evidence from NSOPF:99

2005

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In this study, we use data from the 1999 National Study of Postsecondary Faculty (NSOPF:99) to measure the unexplained wage gap between men and women in academe. We pay particular attention to how these unexplained wage gaps have changed over time by comparing the results from the 1999 survey to published results from previous national surveys and test for the sensitivity of these findings to the method used for measuring the unexplained wage gap and the type of institution or field being examined. We found that there has been a notable reduction in the overall unexplained wage gap between men and women, and that there is no longer any evidence of a statistically significant pay differential between men and women in doctoral-level or liberal arts institutions. The results also show that significant pay differentials still persist in some segments of academe, and that overall women with comparable qualifications to men have lower salaries.

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2005

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“…He argues that his findings are consistent with monopsonistic salary discriminations by universities. Barbezat and Donihue (1998) and Hallock (1995) moderate these findings. They conclude, however, that "the tenure system (.…”

Section: The University System As a Weighted Output Maximizing Monopsonymentioning

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“…What distinguishes the nonprofit organization is that the managers, board of trustees or other 'owners' cannot distribute the profit among themselves: they must be held in reserve or else be used to increase the future expenditures of the organization." 10 See for instance Ransom (1993), Masten (1995Masten ( , 1999, Barbezat and Donihue (1998), Euwals and Ward (2000). 11 The monopsony power of the universities is well documented.…”

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“…is related to an employer's willingness to compensate seniority. If reduced faculty mobility accompanies the granting of lifetime employment, employers may gain monopsony power over tenured faculty" (Barbezat and Donihue 1998). 12 Committees spend a long time discussing the relative value of certain research output and teaching output.…”

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Multi-dimensional contracts with task-specific productivity: an application to universities

Walckiers

2007

Int Tax Public Finance

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“…First, professors experience little inter-university mobility (Barbezat and Donihue 1998). Second, universities adopt wage structures that pay professors more as they move through the lifecycle (Monks and Robinson 2001).…”

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A theory of tenure‐track contracts

Cater

Lew

Smith

2008

Education Economics

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This paper offers an explanation of the use of tenure-track contracts in academia. It argues that, because the results of academic research cannot be sold, a professor's profitability depends on the market value of the instruction he or she provides. But because that value depends directly on the extent of his or her observable research accomplishments, a profit-maximizing university will dismiss a professor who fails to initially establish a strong research record, but will tolerate a professor who fails to augment a record that is already strong.

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Do faculty salaries rise with job seniority?

Cited by 29 publications

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Progress For Women In Academe, Yet Inequities Persist: Evidence from NSOPF:99

Progress For Women In Academe, Yet Inequities Persist: Evidence from NSOPF:99

Multi-dimensional contracts with task-specific productivity: an application to universities

A theory of tenure‐track contracts

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