Earnings profiles of department heads: comparing cross-section and panel models.
Academics who become department heads suffer declining research skills because of time spent performing administrative tasks, and this skill depreciation slows future wage growth. This study examines Kansas State University faculty who served as department heads during the period 1965-92. Cross-se...
| Published in: | Industrial & Labor Relations Review Vol. 49; pp. 256 - 273 |
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Cornell University
January 1996
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