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- James Walker & Anna Vignoles & Mark Collins (2010): Higher education academic salaries in the UK
It is widely believed that higher education academic salaries are too low, and that this may lead to a 'brain drain' and also lower quality in higher education, as universities fail to attract the 'brightest and the best'. We compare the salaries of higher education teaching professionals in the UK with those of other comparable professionals. We compare academic salaries to a range of occupational groupings that one might view as similar, in terms of unobserved characteristics, to academics. ... In particular, academic earnings compare poorly to those in the legal professions, consultant physicians and dental practitioners (across both the public and private sectors). On the other hand, some public sector workers do worse than HE academics, e.g.
RePEc:oup:oxecpp:v:62:y:2010:i:1:p:12-35 Save to MyIDEAS - James Walker & Anna Vignoles & Mark Collins (2006): Higher education academic salaries in the UK
There appears to be a remarkable consensus that higher education academic salaries are too low, relative to other groups of workers in the UK, and that this is leading to an academic ‘brain drain’. ... To rise above the rhetoric, there is a pressing need for robust evidence on relative academic salaries. In this paper, we compare the salaries of Higher Education teaching professionals in the United Kingdom with those of other comparable professionals. We offer evidence on relative salaries in HE academia over the last decade or so and we compare academic salaries to a range of different comparator groups, including some specific occupational groupings that one might view as more similar, in terms of unobserved characteristics, to academics. ... On the other hand, there are groups of public sector workers that do worse than HE academics, and in particular FE academics earn significantly less.
RePEc:rdg:emxxdp:em-dp2006-37 Save to MyIDEAS - Mark Collins & Anna Vignoles & James Walker (2007): Higher Education Academic Salaries in the UK
There appears to be a remarkable consensus that higher education academic salaries are too low, relative to other groups of workers in the UK, and that this is leading to an academic 'brain drain'. ... To rise above the rhetoric, there is a pressing need for robust evidence on relative academic salaries. In this paper, we compare the salaries of Higher Education teaching professionals in the United Kingdom with those of other comparable professionals. We offer evidence on relative salaries in HE academia over the last decade or so and we compare academic salaries to a range of different comparator groups, including some specific occupational groupings that one might view as more similar, in terms of unobserved characteristics, to academics. ... On the other hand, there are groups of public sector workers that do worse than HE academics, and in particular FE academics earn significantly less.
RePEc:cep:ceedps:0075 Save to MyIDEAS - Collins, Mark & Vignoles, Anna & Walker, James (2007): Higher education academic salaries in the UK
There appears to be a remarkable consensus that higher education academic salaries are too low, relative to other groups of workers in the UK, and that this is leading to an academic ‘brain drain’. ... To rise above the rhetoric, there is a pressing need for robust evidence on relative academic salaries. In this paper, we compare the salaries of Higher Education teaching professionals in the United Kingdom with those of other comparable professionals. We offer evidence on relative salaries in HE academia over the last decade or so and we compare academic salaries to a range of different comparator groups, including some specific occupational groupings that one might view as more similar, in terms of unobserved characteristics, to academics. ... On the other hand, there are groups of public sector workers that do worse than HE academics, and in particular FE academics earn significantly less.
RePEc:ehl:lserod:19399 Save to MyIDEAS - Li Lian Ong & Jason D. Mitchell (2003): Professors and Hamburgers: An International Comparison of Real Academic Salaries
In recent years, academic staff unions and associations have argued for higher salaries for academics on the grounds that existing salaries have not kept pace with inflation, are well-below commercial salaries and, most glaringly, are much lower than the salaries of their overseas counterparts. ... In this chapter, we provide a comparison of real academic salaries by converting the nominal salaries in each country to their purchasing power equivalents, using the Big Mac Index. Our results show that real academic salaries are highest in Hong Kong and Singapore, relative to the developed countries, while Hong Kong tax and social security deductions are lowest. Furthermore, real salary levels, combined with intrinsic considerations such as the quality of life, indicate that Canada and New Zealand are unattractive places for visiting/migrating academics, while Australia and the US are relatively attractive. We suggest that our findings could be of use to policy-makers and academic unions in salary negotiations, as well as academics making relocation decisions.
RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-51241-2_6 Save to MyIDEAS - Li Lian Ong & Jason Mitchell (2000): Professors and hamburgers: an international comparison of real academic salaries
In recent years, academic staff unions and associations have argued for higher salaries for academics on the grounds that existing salaries have not kept pace with inflation, are well below commercial salaries and, most glaringly, are much lower than the salaries of their overseas counterparts. ... A comparison is provided of real academic salaries by converting the nominal salaries in each country to their purchasing power equivalents, using the Big Mac Index. Our results show that real academic salaries are highest in Hong Kong and Singapore, relative to the developed countries, while Hong Kong tax and social security deductions are lowest. Furthermore, real salary levels, combined with intrinsic considerations such as the quality-of-life, indicate that Canada and New Zealand are unattractive places for visiting/migrating academics, while Australia and the USA are relatively attractive. It is suggested that these findings could be of use to policy-makers and academic unions in salary negotiations, as well as academics making relocation decisions.
RePEc:taf:applec:v:32:y:2000:i:7:p:869-876 Save to MyIDEAS - JONATHAN C. BALDRY (1991): Academic Salary Loadings In Australia
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RePEc:bla:econpa:v:10:y:1991:i:1:p:54-70 Save to MyIDEAS - Stevens, Philip Andrew (2004): Academic Salaries in the UK and US
We examine the wages of graduates inside and outside of academe in both the UK and US. We find that in both the UK and the US an average graduate working in the HE sector would earn less over his or her lifetime than graduates working in non-academic sectors. ... Academics in the UK earn less than academics in the US at all ages. ... This leads us to conclude that the differences in UK and US academic wages are unlikely to be due to differences in the academics themselves, but rather to differences in labour markets generally and in systems of higher education between the two countries, which suggests that there is a strong pay incentive for academics to migrate from the UK to the US.
RePEc:cup:nierev:v:190:y:2004:i::p:104-113_10 Save to MyIDEAS - Philip Andrew Stevens (2004): Academic Salaries in the UK and US
We examine the wages of graduates inside and outside of academe in both the UK and US. We find that in both the UK and the US an average graduate working in the HE sector would earn less over his or her lifetime than graduates working in non-academic sectors. ... Academics in the UK earn less than academics in the US at all ages. ... This leads us to conclude that the differences in UK and US academic wages are unlikely to be due to differences in the academics themselves, but rather to differences in labour markets generally and in systems of higher education between the two countries, which suggests that there is a strong pay incentive for academics to migrate from the UK to the US.
RePEc:sae:niesru:v:190:y:2004:i:1:p:104-113 Save to MyIDEAS - McDonald, James B. & Sorensen, Jeff (2017): Academic salary compression across disciplines and over time
Academic salary compression occurs when professors of lower professorial rank earn salaries close to—or even higher than—salaries of more senior faculty. We present a modified maximum likelihood method for fitting flexible Dagum distributions to limited data that provide only the minimum, maximum, mean, and sample size, and we use this method to study salary compression across 15 academic disciplines over the past 22 years. After examining mean-based compression ratios, we estimate salary percentiles and explore stochastic dominance relationships between estimated salary distributions for different disciplines and professorial ranks. Although salary compression is not seen in most academic disciplines, it is prevalent in business-related disciplines, is increasing in these disciplines, and exhibits examples of stochastic dominance. In addition, salary compression increases as competing nonacademic salaries increase.
RePEc:eee:ecoedu:v:59:y:2017:i:c:p:87-104 Save to MyIDEAS