Job Mobility, Peer Effects, and Research Productivity in Economics

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Effects of mobilities on the research output and its multidisciplinarity of academics in Hong Kong and Macau: An exploratory study

“…The number of transnational job changes positively affects research output and multidisciplinarity, which aligns with the literature that underlines the relevance of transnational mobility for research activities and production (Fangmeng, ; Filippo et al, ; Jonkers & Tijssen, ; Yamashita & Yoshinaga, ), and suggests that transnational mobility remains important in today's academia despite the greater frequency of virtual mobilities permitted by advances in ICT (Bolli & Schlapfer, ). The mobility variables associated with the educational path are not significant, which may indicate that mobility can be influential right after the conclusion of education and entry into the labour market, but not later.…”

“…While acknowledging the relevance of transnational mobility, Ackers () suggested that mobility should be understood more broadly and include sectoral mobility, interdisciplinary mobility, transdisciplinary mobility and virtual mobility as well as mobility between public and private sectors. Heeringen and Dijkwel () and Bolli and Schlapfer () highlighted the relevance of job mobility from one organisation to another within and across a country as important with regards to networking, experiencing new ideas and adjusting to new environments. Job mobility is entangled with transnational mobility and is observed mostly in academics who move from the peripheries to the centres of scientific power and academic prestige (Bennion & Locke, ).…”

“…However, other studies find no relationship between transnational mobility and research output. Bolli and Schlapfer () found no influence of overseas experience on research productivity and argued that today's information and communication technologies (ICT) environment and its implied virtual mobility may replace the need for geographical mobility. Hunter et al () also identified that internationally mobile physicists did not have higher h ‐indices than their non‐mobile peers.…”

“…Secondly, mobility experiences are increasingly discussed with regards to their effects on academics' scholarly output—more concretely, their research productivity—but the findings are mixed thus far (Bolli & Schlapfer, ; Shin, Jung, Postiglione, & Azman, ). The reason for these mixed findings is twofold.…”

Time to Go? (Inter)National Mobility and Appointment Success of Young Academics

“…with the effects of a researcher's change of affiliation within one country -in an attempt to find out more about the underlying mechanisms that make appointment committees appreciate international mobility in comparison to national mobility. In so doing, we are the first to analyze a potential direct link between a researcher's national mobility and his or her appointment success -over and above the effect national mobility might have on a researcher's publication record (for the latter see e.g., Bäker (2015); Bolli and Schläpfer (2015); Fernández-Zubieta, Geuna, and Lawson (2015)). …”