Volume 10, Number 4 (Fall) 1975
Farber, Stephen C. 1975. "A Labor Shortage Model Applied to the Migration of College Professors." Journal of Human Resources 10(4):482-499.
This study tests the impact of labor market conditions for college professors on their migration behavior between academic institutions and on their income gains from migration for the period 1960-68. A cross-sectional approach analyzes the correlations across seven disciplines between academic labor market conditions, on the one hand, and interstate migration rates and base salary gains from migration, on the other. There is evidence of high correlations, as hypothesized by the appropriate labor shortage model.
The author is Assistant Professor of Economics, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge. This paper stems from the author's dissertation at Vanderbilt University. The National Register of the National Science Foundation provided the data tapes for the analysis. The author wishes to acknowledge the helpful comments of Dr. T. Aldrich Finegan.
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