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Author-Name:  Michael Graber
Author-X-Name-First: Michael
Author-X-Name-Last: Graber

Author-Name:  Andrey Launov
Author-X-Name-First: Andrey
Author-X-Name-Last: Launov

Author-Name:  Klaus Waelde
Author-X-Name-First: Klaus
Author-X-Name-Last: Waelde

Title: How to get tenured

Abstract: Getting a tenured position in economics in Germany is viewed as a random
outcome where the probability of tenure depends on the quantity and qual-
ity of publications, age and years since PhD. We measure publications both
in units of Top 5 journals and in units of the European Economic Review
(EER). We find that the average age of a professor in the year of his first
appointment in Germany in the period of 1970 to 2005 is 38. This is ap-
proximately 8 years after the PhD. He has 1.5 "standardized" Top 5 papers
or 2.2 "standardized" EER papers, i.e. written with one coauthor and of 20
pages length. Results vary across subfields and over time. Someone aiming
for a tenured job after 2010 should by then (average over all fields) have
3.3 standardized Top 5 papers or 5 standardized EER papers.
Length:  24 pages
Creation-Date:  2007-08
File-URL: http://www.bgpe.de/texte/DP/030_graber.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2007
Number: 030
Handle: RePEc:bav:wpaper:030_graber