Market forces in Italian academia today (and yesterday)
(2023) Scientometrics — Vol. 128, p. 651-698 (2023)
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- This paper investigates the operation of the academic market in Italy, mapping current scholars’ location choices. I build a new dataset of current professors, associating each scholar with a composite indicator of their quality. The analysis includes the quality of the university and the features of the city where the institution is located. I estimate the strength of different factors: gravity (distance), agglomeration (scholars are attracted to higher quality universities), selection (better scholars travel longer distances), and sorting (the better the scholar, the more the quality of universities is weighted). I find that all of these factors have an effect, and do not vary according to scholars’ gender. I find a greater expected utility for scholars in choosing private universities over public ones, through a consistent nesting procedure. Comparing these forces to historical trends in Italian academia, the sorting effect delineates a new momentum for the current academic market in Italy.
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Zanardello, C. (2023). Market forces in Italian academia today (and yesterday). Scientometrics, 128, 651-698. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-022-04579-0 (Original work published 2023)