Measuring and exploring the geographic mobility of American professors from graduating institutions: Differences across disciplines, academic ranks, and genders
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Highlights：
• This paper proposes two novel measures to study the geographic mobility of faculty members in the United States.
• Explores a faculty hiring network dataset including more than 15,000 faculty members in three disparate disciplines.
• American faculty exhibits high geographic mobility in terms of relocation distance and cross-MSA moves from their graduating institutions.
• Assistant professors show the highest mobility while full professors show lowest mobility from their graduating institutions.
• While there is little distance difference between male and female faculty members overall, female faculty members are less likely to move between MSAs or regions.
摘要
•This paper proposes two novel measures to study the geographic mobility of faculty members in the United States.•Explores a faculty hiring network dataset including more than 15,000 faculty members in three disparate disciplines.•American faculty exhibits high geographic mobility in terms of relocation distance and cross-MSA moves from their graduating institutions.•Assistant professors show the highest mobility while full professors show lowest mobility from their graduating institutions.•While there is little distance difference between male and female faculty members overall, female faculty members are less likely to move between MSAs or regions.
论文关键词：Faculty hiring network,Gender differences,Geographic mobility behavior,Geographic distance,MSA
论文评审过程：Received 18 July 2018, Revised 28 May 2019, Accepted 30 May 2019, Available online 24 June 2019, Version of Record 24 June 2019.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2019.05.001
