Productivity pay-offs from academic mobility: should I stay or should I go?
- Ana Fernández Zubieta
- Aldo Geuna
- Cornelia Lawson
ISSN: 1464-3650
Argitalpen urtea: 2016
Alea: 25
Zenbakia: 1
Orrialdeak: 91-114
Mota: Artikulua
Beste argitalpen batzuk: Industrial and Corporate Change
Laburpena
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.