Do economics departments with lower tenure probabilities pay higher faculty salaries?

Review of Economics and Statistics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 503-512

  Ehrenberg, Ronald G ^c   Pieper, Paul J ^a   Willis, Rachel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^c NONE

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EID: 0032265581     PISSN: 00346535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/003465398557780     Document Type: Article

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