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Paying the professoriate : a global comparison of compensation and contracts

How are professors paid? Can the "best and brightest" be attracted to the academic profession? With universities facing international competition, which countries compensate their academics best, and which ones lag behind? Paying the Professoriate examines these questions and provides key insights into and recommendations for the current state of the academic profession worldwide
Print Book, English, 2012
Routledge, New York, 2012
Cross-cultural studies
xiv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780415898065, 9780415898072, 9780203803080, 0415898064, 0415898072, 0203803086
1045487210
Part 1: Analysis 1. Academic Remuneration and Contracts: Global Trends and Realities Philip G. Altbach, Liz Reisberg, and Iván F. Pacheco 2. Quantitative Analysis: Looking for Commonalities in a Sea of Differences Gregory Androushchak and Maria Yudkevich Part 2: Case Studies 3. Labor Contracts and Economic Incentives for Argentine University Faculty Ana García de Fanelli 4. The Academic Career in a Transition Economy: Case Study of the Republic of Armenia Arevik Ohanyan 5. Academic Salaries, Massification, and the Rise of an Underclass in Australia Anthony Welch 6. Brazil: The Widening Gap Simon Schwartzman 7. The Organization of Academic Work and Faculty Remuneration at Canadian Universities Glen A. Jones and Julian Weinrib 8. A Study on Academic Salary and Remunerations in China Wanhua Ma and Jianbo Wen 9. Academic Salaries in Colombia: The Data Tell Only a Small Part of the Story Iván F. Pacheco 10. The Czech Republic: High Estimation for the Academic Profession Helena Sebkova 11. Salary and Incentive Structure in Ethiopian Higher Education Elizabeth Ayalew 12. Changing the Rules of the French Academic Market Gaële Goastellec 13. The Income Situation in the German System of Higher Education: A Rag Rug Marius Herzog and Barbara M. Kehm 14. Academic Salaries and Career Advancement: Tuning the Professoriate for a Knowledge Economy in India Narayana Jayaram 15. Israel: Academic Salaries and Remuneration Sara Guri-Rosenblit 16. Italy: From Bureaucratic Legacy to Reform of the Profession Giliberto Capano and Gianfranco Rebora 17. Working Conditions and Salaries of the Academic Profession in Japan Kazunori Shima 18. Academic Salaries in Kazakhstan: Current Status and Perspectives Sholpan Kalanova 19. The Academic Salary System: Conditions and Trends in Latvia Tatjana Volkova 20. Attractiveness of Salaries and Remunerations of Malaysian Academics Muhamad Jantan 21. Mexican Faculty Salaries Today: Once a Bagger, Always a Beggar? Alma Maldonado-Maldonado 22. Introducing Market Forces in Academic Remuneration: The Case of the Netherlands Ben Jongbloed 23. Nigeria: Toward an Open Market Olufemi A. Bamiro 24. Academic Salaries in Norway: Increasing Emphasis on Research Achievement Svein Kyvik 25. Russian Higher Education: Salaries and Contracts Gregory Androushchak and Maria Yudkevich 26. Faculty Salary and Remuneration in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Mohammad Al-Ohali and Hamad Al-Mehrej 27. The Unequal Playing Field: Academic Remuneration in South Africa Chika Trevor Sehoole 28. Remuneration of Academic Staff in Turkish Universities Kemal Gürüz 29. Academic Salary in the United Kingdom: Marketization and National Policy Development Fumi Kitagawa 30. The Power of Institutional and Disciplinary Markets: Academic Salaries in the United States Martin J. Finkelstein Part 3: Reflections 31. Academic Community and Contracts: Modern Challenges and Responses Yaroslav Kuzminov