Productivity pay-offs from academic mobility: should I stay or should I go?
研究了英国171名学者在1957-2005年间的职业流动对学术表现的影响，发现流动本身不提升生产力，只有流向更好的部门才有微弱正面作用，向下流动则降低生产力，且流动总伴随短期绩效下降。
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.