Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22368 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
W.E.P. - Würzburg Economic Papers No. 75
Publisher: 
University of Würzburg, Department of Economics, Würzburg
Abstract: 
Getting a tenured position in economics in Germany is viewed as a random outcome where the probability of tenure depends on the quantity and quality of publications, age and years since PhD. We measure publications both in units of Top 5 journals and in units of the European Economic Review (EER). We find that the average age of a professor in the year of his first appointment in Germany in the period of 1970 to 2005 is 38. This is approximately 8 years after the PhD. He has 1.5 "standardized" Top 5 papers or 2.2 "standardized" EER papers, i.e. written with one coauthor and of 20 pages length. Results vary across subfields and over time. Someone aiming for a tenured job after 2010 should by then (average over all fields) have 3.3 standardized Top 5 papers or 5 standardized EER papers.
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Working Paper

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