Pay Peanuts and Get Monkeys? Evidence from Academia

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Pay Peanuts and Get Monkeys? Evidence from Academia

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In most countries, academic pay is independent of discipline, thus ignoring differences in labor market opportunities. Using some unique data from a comprehensive research assessment exercise undertaken in one such country – New Zealand – this paper examines the impact of discipline-independent pay on research quality. I find that the greater the difference between the value of a discipline’s outside opportunities and its New Zealand academic salary, the weaker its research performance in New...

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Research paper

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Journal article

Date created

2008

Creator

Boyle, G.

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http://hdl.handle.net/10092/2025

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academic pay / New Zealand universities / Fields of Research::340000 Economics::340200 Applied Economics::340207 Labour economics

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