%0 Report %1 Graber2007 %A Graber, Michael %A Launov, Andrey %A Wälde, Klaus %D 2007 %K Deutschland VWL tenured %N 75 %T How to get tenured : (in Germany, in economics) %U http://opus.zbw-kiel.de/volltexte/2007/6607/pdf/wep75.pdf %X Getting a tenured position in economics in Germany is viewed as a random outcome where the probability of tenure depends on the quantity and quality 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 approximately 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

@techreport{Graber2007, 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 quality 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 approximately 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 }, added-at = {2008-09-17T12:55:00.000+0200}, author = {Graber, Michael and Launov, Andrey and Wälde, Klaus}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2fabade270be93b42996f4343388c2dd0/sschaefers}, institution = {University of Würzburg}, interhash = {8588252aff60d36826218b3651959107}, intrahash = {fabade270be93b42996f4343388c2dd0}, keywords = {Deutschland VWL tenured}, month = {August}, number = 75, timestamp = {2008-10-15T21:59:32.000+0200}, title = {How to get tenured : (in Germany, in economics) }, type = {Würzburg economic papers}, url = {http://opus.zbw-kiel.de/volltexte/2007/6607/pdf/wep75.pdf}, year = 2007 }