Late retirement, early careers, and the aging of U.S. science and engineering professors
| dc.contributor.author | Ghaffarzadegan, Navid | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Xu, Ran | en |
| dc.contributor.department | Industrial and Systems Engineering | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2019-01-18T19:04:15Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2019-01-18T19:04:15Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2018-12-26 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | Studies of rescuing early-career scientists often take narrow approaches and focus on PhD students or postdoc populations. In a multi-method systems approach, we examine the inter-relations between the two ends of the pipeline and ask: what are the effects of late retirement on aging and hiring in academia? With a simulation model, we postulate that the decline in the retirement rate in academia contributes to the aging pattern through two mechanisms: (a) direct effect: longer stay of established professors, and (b) indirect effect: a hiring decline in tenure-track positions. Late retirement explains more than half of the growth in average age and brings about 20% decline in hiring. We provide empirical evidence based on the natural experimental set-up of the removal of mandatory retirement in the 1990s. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | The project was supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research of the National Institutes of Health (2U01GM094141-05 to JH). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. There was no additional external funding received for this study. | en |
| dc.format.extent | 16 pages | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Citation: Ghaffarzadegan N, Xu R (2018) Late retirement, early careers, and the aging of U.S. science and engineering professors. PLoS ONE 13 (12): e0208411. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal. pone.0208411 | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208411 | en |
| dc.identifier.issue | 12 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/86775 | en |
| dc.identifier.volume | 13 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | PLOS | en |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
| dc.title | Late retirement, early careers, and the aging of U.S. science and engineering professors | en |
| dc.title.serial | PLOS ONE | en |
| dc.type | Article - Refereed | en |
| dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |
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