Studying Ourselves: The Academic Labor Market
聚焦三个学术劳动力市场问题：公立与私立高校教师薪资差距扩大、高校间平均薪资离散度增加、以及科学重要性上升对学术劳动力市场的影响。
[Excerpt] The study of academic labor markets by economists goes back at least to Adam Smith?s suggestion in The Wealth of Nations that a professor?s compensation be tied to the number of students that enrolled in his classes. This paper focuses on three academic labor market issues that students at Cornell and I are currently addressing; the declining salaries of faculty employed at public colleges and universities relative to the salaries of their counterparts employed at private higher education institutions, the growing dispersion of average faculty salaries across academic institutions within both the public and private sectors, and the impacts of the growing importance and costs of science on the academic labor market and universities.