Who becomes a tenured professor, and why? Panel data evidence from German sociology, 1980-2013

Research Policy

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 999-1013

  Lutter, Mark ^a   Schröder, Martin ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIETIES   (Germany)

^b PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Academic careers; Gender; Human capital; Social capital; Symbolic capital; Tenure

Indexed keywords

SOCIAL SCIENCES;

ACADEMIC CAREERS; GENDER; HUMAN CAPITALS; SOCIAL CAPITALS; SYMBOLIC CAPITAL; TENURE;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84959134429     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2016.01.019     Document Type: Article

References (86)

1. Paul D. Allison, and Long F Scott. Departmental effects on scientific productivity Am. Sociol. Rev. 55 4 1990 469 478
2. Paul D. Allison, Scott J. Long, and Tad K. Krauze Cumulative advantage and inequality in science Am. Sociol. Rev. 47 5 1982 615 625
3. Agnieszka Althaber, Johanna Hess, and Lisa Pfahl Karriere mit Kind in der Wissenschaft - Egalitärer Anspruch und tradierte Wirklichkeit der familiären Betreuungsarrangements von erfolgreichen Frauen und ihren Partnern A. Rusconi, H. Solga, Gemeinsam Karriere machen. Die Verflechtung von Berufskarrieren und Familie in Akademikerpartnerschaften 2011 Barbara Budrich Opladen 83 116
4. Kenneth J. Arrow Models of job discrimination A.H. Pascal, Racial Discrimination in Economic Life 1972 Heath Lexington, MA 83 102
5. Christian Baier, and Richard Münch Institutioneller Wettbewerb und Karrierechancen von Nachwuchswissenschaftlern in der Chemie Kölner Zeitschrift Soziol. Sozialpsychol. 65 1 2013 129 155
6. Agnes Bäker Non-tenured post-doctoral researchers' job mobility and research output: an analysis of the role of research discipline, department size, and coauthors Res. Policy 44 3 2015 634 650
7. Stéphane Baldi Prestige determinants of first academic job for new sociology Ph.D.s 1985-1992 Sociol. Q. 36 4 1995 777 789
8. Gary S. Becker Underinvestment in college education? Am. Econ. Rev. 50 2 1960 346 354
9. Gary S. Becker Human Capital: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis, with Special Reference to Education 1964 University of Chicago Press Chicago
10. Gary S. Becker The Economics of Discrimination 1971 The University of Chicago Press Chicago (1957)
11. Gary S. Becker Nobel lecture: the economic way of looking at behavior J. Polit. Econ. 101 3 1993 385 409
12. Arthur G. Bedeian, David E. Cavazos, James G. Hunt, and Lawrence R. Jauch Doctoral degree prestige and the academic marketplace: a study of career mobility within the management discipline Acad. Manag. Learn. Educ. 9 1 2010 11 25
13. Clément Bosquet, Pierre-Philippe Combes, and Cecilia Garcia-Peñalosa Gender and Promotions: Evidence from Academic Economists in France 2014 Sciences Po Paris (LIEPP Working Paper. No. 29)
14. Bourdieu, Pierre. 1986. "The Forms of Capital." pp. 241-258 in Handbook of Theory and Research for the Sociology of Education, edited by J. G. Richardson.
15. Thomas Breda, and Son Thierry Ly Do professors really perpetuate the gender gap in science? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in a French Higher Education Institution 2012 Centre for the Economics of Education, London School of Economics London (Discussion Paper) http://cee.lse.ac.uk/ceedps/ceedp138.pdf
16. Val Burris The academic caste system: prestige hierarchies in PhD exchange networks Am. Sociol. Rev. 69 2 2004 239 264
17. Ronald S. Burt The gender of social capital Ration. Soc. 10 1 1998 5 46
18. Mario A. Cleves, William W. Gould, and Roberto G. Gutierrez An Introduction To Survival Analysis Using Stata 2004 Stata Press College Station, TX
19. James S. Coleman Social capital in the creation of human capital Am. J. Sociol. 94 1 1988 95 121
20. David R. Cox Analysis of multivariate binary data J. R. Stat. Soc., Ser. C (Appl. Stat.) 21 2 1972 113 120
21. Diana Crane The academic marketplace revisited: a study of faculty mobility using the Carter ratings Am. J. Sociol. 75 6 1970 953 964
22. Laura Cruz-Castro, and Luis Sanz-Menéndez Mobility versus job stability: assessing tenure and productivity outcomes Res. Policy 39 1 2010 27 38
23. Kingsley Davis, and Wilbert E. Moore Some principles of stratification Am. Sociol. Rev. 10 2 1944 242 249
24. W.W. Ding, F. Murray, and T.E. Stuart Gender differences in patenting in the academic life sciences Science 313 5787 2006 665 667
25. Durkheim, Émile. 1893. "De la division du travail social." Les auteur(e)s classiques.
26. Elsevier. 2015. Mapping Gender in the German Research Arena. A report conducted by Elsevier. (https://www.elsevier.com/--data/assets/pdf-file/0004/126715/ELS-Germany-Gender-Research-SinglePages.pdf).
27. Kenneth A. Feldman College students' views of male and female college teachers: Part II - evidence from students' evaluations of their classroom teachers Res. Higher Educ. 34 2 1993 151 211
28. Roberto M. Fernandez, and Nancy Weinberg Sifting and sorting: personal contacts and hiring in a retail bank Am. Sociol. Rev. 62 6 1997 883 902
29. Bernd Fitzenberger, and Ute Schulze Up or out: research incentives and career prospects of postdocs in Germany German Econ. Rev. 15 2 2014 287 328
30. Marianna Fotaki No woman is like a man (in Academia): The masculine symbolic order and the unwanted female body Organ. Stud. 34 9 2013 1251 1275
31. Jürgen Gerhards Reputation in der deutschen Soziologie - zwei getrennte Welten Soziologie 31 2 2002 19 33
32. Jürgen Gerhards, and Silke Hans Transnational human capital, education, and social inequality. Analyses of international student exchange Zeitschrift Soziol. 42 2 2013 99 117
33. Francesca Gino, Caroline Ashley Wilmuth, and Alison Wood Brooks Compared to men, women view professional advancement as equally attainable, but less desirable Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 112 40 2015 12354 12359
34. Olivier Godechot The Chance of Influence. A Natural Experiment on the Role of Social Capital in Academic Hiring. 2014 MaxPo Paris (Discussion Paper 14/1)
35. Olivier Godechot, and Nicolas Mariot Les deux formes du capital social: structure relationnelle des jurys de thèses et recrutement en science politique Revue Fr. Sociol. 45 2 2004 243 282
36. Roger V. Gould The origins of status hierarchies: a formal theory and empirical test Am. J. Sociol. 107 5 2002 1143 1178
37. Mark Granovetter The strength of weak ties Am. J. Sociol. 78 6 1973 1360 1380
38. Christiane Gross, and Monika Jungbauer-Gans Erfolg durch Leistung? Ein Forschungsüberblick zum Thema Wissenschaftskarrieren Soziale Welt 81 4 2007 453 471
39. Michael Hartmann Die Exzellenzinitiative und ihre Folgen Leviathan 38 3 2010 369 387
40. Jörg Heining, Jürgen Jerger, and Jörg Lingens Success in the academic labour market for economists - The German experience Econ. Manag. Inform. Syst. 2007 (Working Paper N0. 442. University of Regensburg: Working Papers in Business) http://epub.uni-regensburg.de/4539/
41. Simon Hix A global ranking of political science departments Polit. Stud. Rev. 2 3 2004 293 313
42. Monika Jungbauer-Gans, and Christiane Gross Determinants of success in university careers: findings from the German Academic Labor Market Zeitschrift Soziol. 42 1 2013 74 92
43. Bruce Keith, and Nicholas Babchuk The quest for institutional recognition: a longitudinal analysis of scholarly productivity and academic prestige among sociology departments Soc. Forces 76 4 1998 1495 1533
44. Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick, Carroll J. Glynn, and Michael Huge The Matilda effect in science communication: an experiment on gender bias in publication quality perceptions and collaboration interest Sci. Commun. 35 5 2013 603 625
45. Beate Krais Academia as a profession and the hierarchy of the sexes: paths out of research in German universities Higher Educ. Q. 56 4 2002 407 418
46. Erin Leahey Gender differences in productivity: research specialization as a missing link Gend. Soc. 20 6 2006 754 780
47. Erin Leahey Not by productivity alone: how visibility and specialization contribute to academic earnings Am. Sociol. Rev. 72 4 2007 533 561
48. Erin Leahey, Jason Lee Crockett, and Laura Ann Hunter Gendered academic careers: specializing for success? Soc. Forces 86 3 2008 1273 1309
49. Regula Julia Leemann, Philipp Dubach, and Stefan Boes The leaky pipeline in the Swiss University system: identifying gender barriers in postgraduate education and networks using longitudinal data Swiss J. Sociol. 36 2 2010 299 323
50. Eldon Y. Li, Chien Hsiang Liao, and Hsiuju Rebecca Yen Co-authorship networks and research impact: a social capital perspective Res. Policy 42 9 2013 1515 1530
51. D.Y. Lin, and L.J. Wei The robust inference for the cox proportional hazards model J. Am. Stat. Assoc. 84 408 1989 1074 1078
52. Nan Lin Social Capital: A Theory of Social Structure and Action 2001 Cambridge University Press New York
53. Anne E. Lincoln, Stephanie Pincus, Janet Bandows Koster, and Phoebe S. Leboy The Matilda Effect in science: Awards and Prizes in the US, 1990s and 2000s Soc. Stud. Sci. 42 2 2012 307 320
54. J. Scott Long Productivity and academic position in the scientific career Am. Sociol. Rev. 43 6 1978 889 908
55. J. Scott Long The origins of sex differences in science Soc. Forces 68 4 1990 1297 1316
56. J. Scott Long, Paul D. Allison, and Robert McGinnis Rank advancement in academic careers: sex differences and the effects of productivity Am. Sociol. Rev. 58 5 1993 703 722
57. Mark Lutter Do women suffer from network closure? The moderating effect of social capital on gender inequality in a project-based labor market, 1929-2010 Am. Sociol. Rev. 80 2 2015 329 358
58. Herbert W. Marsh Students' evaluations of university teaching: a multidimensional perspective R.P. Perry, J.C. Smart, The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education: An Evidence-Based Perspective 2007 Springer New York 319 384
59. Hildegard Matthies, and Karin Zimmermann Gleichstellung in der Wissenschaft D. Simon, A. Knie, S. Hornbostel, Handbuch Wissenschaftspolitik 2010 VS Verlag Wiesbaden 193 209
60. Robert K. Merton The normative structure of science N.W. Storer, The Sociology of Science 1973 University of Chicago Press Chicago 267 278
61. Christina Möller Wie offen ist die Universitätsprofessur für soziale Aufsteigerinnen und Aufsteiger? Explorative Analysen zur sozialen Herkunft der Professorinnen und Professoren an den nordrhein-westfälischen Universitäten Soziale Welt 64 4 2013 341 360
62. Corinne A. Moss-Racusin, John F. Dovidio, Victoria L. Brescoll, Mark J. Graham, and Jo Handelsman Science faculty's subtle gender biases favor male students Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 109 41 2012 16474 16479
63. Richard Münch Wissenschaft im Schatten von Kartell, Monopol und Oligarchie. Die latenten Effekte der Exzellenzinitiative Leviathan 34 4 2006 466 486
64. Richard Münch Academic Capitalism 2014 Universities in the Global Struggle for Excellence Routledge
65. Richard Münch, and Christian Baier Die Konstruktion der soziologischen Realität durch Forschungsrating Berl. J. Soziol. 19 2 2009 295 319
66. Christine Musselin The Market for Academics 2010 Routledge New York
67. Fabian Ochsenfeld Why do women's fields of study pay less? A test of devaluation, human capital, and gender role theory Eur. Sociol. Rev. 30 4 2014 536 548
68. Trond Petersen, and Ishak Saporta The opportunity structure for discrimination Am. J. Sociol. 109 4 2004 852 901
69. Edmund S. Phelps Inflation Policy and Unemployment Theory, the Cost-Benefit Approach to Monetary Planning 1972 Norton New York
70. Edmund S. Phelps The statistical theory of racism and sexism Am. Econ. Rev. 62 4 1972 659 661
71. Thomas Plümper, and Frank Schimmelfennig Wer wird Prof - und wann? Berufungsdeterminanten in der deutschen Politikwissenschaft Politische Vierteljahresschr. 48 1 2007 97 117
72. Craig M. Rawlings, and Daniel A. McFarland Influence flows in the academy: using affiliation networks to assess peer effects among researchers Soc. Sci. Res. 40 3 2011 1001 1017
73. Rachel A. Rosenfeld Academic men and women's career mobility Soc. Sci. Res. 10 4 1981 337 363
74. John M. Rothgeb Jr. When tenure protects the incompetent: results from a survey of department chairs PS: Political Sci. Politics 47 01 2014 182 187
75. Luis Sanz-Menéndez, Laura Cruz-Castro, and Kenedy Alva Time to tenure in Spanish Universities: an event history analysis PLoS One 8 10 2013 e77028
76. Frank Schubert, and Sonja Engelage Wie undicht ist die Pipeline? Wissenschaftskarrieren von promovierten Frauen Kölner Zeitschrift für Soziol. Sozialpsychol. 63 3 2011 431 457
77. RheaE Steinpreis, KatieA Anders, and Dawn Ritzke The impact of gender on the review of the curricula vitae of job applicants and tenure candidates: a national empirical study Sex Roles 41 7-8 1999 509 528
78. Valentina Tartari, and Ammon Salter The engagement gap: exploring gender differences in university - industry collaboration activities Res. Policy 44 6 2015 1176 1191
79. Wendy M. Williams, and Stephen J. Ceci National hiring experiments reveal 2:1 faculty preference for women on stem tenure track Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. 112 17 2015 5360 5365
80. Wissenschaftsrat Pilotstudie Forschungsrating Soziologie, Abschlussbericht der Bewertungsgruppe. 2008 Wissenschaftsrat Köln http://www.wissenschaftsrat.de/download/Forschungsrating/Dokumente/Grundlegende%20Dokumente%20zum%20Forschungsrating/8422-08.pdf
81. Tobias Wolbring Fallstricke der Lehrevaluation, Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Messbarkeit von Lehrqualität 2013 Campus Frankfurt a.M.
82. Nicholas H. Wolfinger, Mary Ann Mason, and Marc Goulden Stay in the game: gender, family formation and alternative trajectories in the academic life course Soc. Forces 87 3 2009 1591 1621
83. Stefan Wuchty, Benjamin F. Jones, and Brian Uzzi The increasing dominance of teams in production of knowledge Science 316 5827 2007 1036 1039
84. Yu Xie, and Kimberlee A. Shauman Sex differences in research productivity: new evidence about an old puzzle Am. Sociol. Rev. 63 6 1998 847 870
85. Jan Youtie, Juan Rogers, Thomas Heinze, Philip Shapira, and Li Tang Career-based influences on scientific recognition in the United States and Europe: longitudinal evidence from curriculum vitae data Res. Policy 42 8 2013 1341 1355
86. David J. Zimmerman Peer effects in academic outcomes: evidence from a natural experiment Rev. Econ. Stat. 85 1 2003 9 23