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Changing Faculty Employment at Four-Year Colleges and Universities in the United States
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Zhang, Liang Cai Ehrenberg, Ronald G. Liu, Xiangmin |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Abstract | We use panel data models to examine variations and changes in faculty employment at four-year colleges and universities in the United States. The share of part-time faculty among total faculty has continued to grow during the last two decades, while the share of full-time lecturers and instructors has been relatively stable. Meanwhile, the share of non-tenure track faculty among full-time faculty has been growing, especially among the professorial ranks. Dynamic panel data models suggest that employment levels of different types of faculty respond to a variety of economic and institutional factors. Colleges and universities have increasingly employed faculty whose salaries and benefits are relatively inexpensive; the slowly deteriorating financial situations at most colleges and universities have led to an increasing reliance on a contingent academic workforce. A cross-sectional comparison of the share of full-time non-tenure track faculty also reveals significant variations across institutions. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.3386/w21827 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.ilr.cornell.edu/sites/ilr.cornell.edu/files/CHERI%20WP169.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/sites/ilr.cornell.edu/files/CHERI%20WP169.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1189&context=workingpapers |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://ftp.iza.org/dp9595.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/127553/1/dp9595.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
