Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/176806 
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Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
GLO Discussion Paper No. 198
Publisher: 
Global Labor Organization (GLO), Maastricht
Abstract: 
Given asymmetric information, this paper explores the need for non-tenure-track jobs in academia alongside the usual tenure-track positions. It also explains the coexistence of these two types of jobs in research universities as an equilibrium phenomenon. The increased e¤ort needed to produce research, accompanied by imprecisions in the academic editorial process, explains the recent increasing trend in the share of non-tenure-track jobs in academia as well as the widening wage gap between tenure-track and non-tenure-track academics.
JEL: 
J21
J11
J24
J31
J41
J44
I23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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