Productivity pay-offs from academic mobility: should I stay or should I go?
- Ana Fernández Zubieta
- Aldo Geuna
- Cornelia Lawson
ISSN: 1464-3650
Año de publicación: 2016
Volumen: 25
Número: 1
Páginas: 91-114
Tipo: Artículo
Otras publicaciones en: Industrial and Corporate Change
Resumen
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.