Time to tenure in Spanish universities: an event history analysis.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how institutional incentives and mechanisms for assigning recognition shape access to a permanent job is important. This study, based on data from questionnaire survey responses and publications of 1,257 university science, biomedical and engineering faculty in Spain, attempts to understand the timing of getting a permanent position and the relevant factors that account for this transition, in the context of dilemmas between mobility and permanence faced by organizations. Using event history analysis, the paper looks at the time to promotion and the effects of some relevant covariates associated to academic performance, social embeddedness and mobility. We find that research productivity contributes to career acceleration, but that other variables are also significantly assoc

SUBMITTER: Sanz-Menendez L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3792917 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature