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    Life-cycle, effort and academic deadwood

    Chen, Y.-F. and Zoega, Gylfi (2010) Life-cycle, effort and academic deadwood. Working Paper. Birkbeck College, University of London, London, UK.

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    Abstract

    It has been observed that university professors sometimes become less research active in their mature years. This paper models the decision to become inactive as a utility maximising problem under conditions of uncertainty and derives an age-dependent inactivity condition for the level of research productivity. The economic analysis is applicable to other professions as well were work effort is difficult to observe along some dimensions.

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    Item Type: Monograph (Working Paper)
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): Deadwood, aging, optimal stopping, salary schemes
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
    Research Centres and Institutes: Applied Macroeconomics, Birkbeck Centre for
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 20 Jun 2013 14:35
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 17:05
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/7545

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