Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/127553 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 9595
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We use panel data models to examine variations and changes in faculty employment at four-year colleges and universities in the United States. The share of part-time faculty among total faculty has continued to grow during the last two decades, while the share of full-time lecturers and instructors has been relatively stable. Meanwhile, the share of non-tenure track faculty among full-time faculty has been growing, especially among the professorial ranks. Dynamic panel data models suggest that employment levels of different types of faculty respond to a variety of economic and institutional factors. Colleges and universities have increasingly employed faculty whose salaries and benefits are relatively inexpensive; the slowly deteriorating financial situations at most colleges and universities have led to an increasing reliance on a contingent academic workforce. A cross-sectional comparison of the share of full-time non-tenure track faculty also reveals significant variations across institutions.
Subjects: 
faculty employment
non tenure-track faculty
JEL: 
I23
J23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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