tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159906646513306121.post5867660502572326256..comments2023-11-19T20:38:50.237-08:00Comments on Economic Logic: Research and teaching are complements in terms of qualityEconomic Logicianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10171296292101248614noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159906646513306121.post-6751700066296122652012-11-28T16:31:13.851-08:002012-11-28T16:31:13.851-08:00My bad, I totally didn't think about alternate...My bad, I totally didn't think about alternate tenure rules.???noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159906646513306121.post-36494159215355294792012-11-28T13:38:30.519-08:002012-11-28T13:38:30.519-08:00One could be even more precise: all Spanish univer...One could be even more precise: all Spanish universities grant tenure from the onset, but the ones mentioned above hire first on time contracts to emulate the US tenure system.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159906646513306121.post-6285362739694655472012-11-28T13:06:27.904-08:002012-11-28T13:06:27.904-08:00To clarify: research universities in Spain (Pompeu...To clarify: research universities in Spain (Pompeu Fabra, Carlos III, UAB) do not have tenure from the start. They have a tenure system similar to the US.<br /><br />I have never heard of Jaume I before though. Don't know how it works there, or if they do any research at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159906646513306121.post-72238536285243258202012-11-28T08:58:42.014-08:002012-11-28T08:58:42.014-08:00This just shows why incentives are broken in South...This just shows why incentives are broken in Southern European universities (Spain, Italy, Greece, I do not know about Portugal). Tenure is very easy to get, and the only professors who put any heart into their work are going to be better than the others in both teaching and research. The deadwood, and there are many of them, stink on both dimensions. Have a different incentive system that would get the majority to put in a reasonable effort, and the results of this study would be very different.<br /><br />So, no, one cannot generalize this result.Vilfredonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159906646513306121.post-55856851591325154302012-11-28T07:59:09.385-08:002012-11-28T07:59:09.385-08:00As far as I understand it, professors have tenure ...As far as I understand it, professors have tenure from the start in Spain. So it is a useless variable here.Economic Logicianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10171296292101248614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4159906646513306121.post-9144246714068149322012-11-28T07:57:46.575-08:002012-11-28T07:57:46.575-08:00Did they not control at all for tenure, or seniori...Did they not control at all for tenure, or seniority in any way? It seems like an obvious variable that would drive both teaching load and research effort (and would explain why the two seem correlated, since instructors have to meet standards for both before tenure). It's absurd that the word 'tenure' only appears once in the whole paper!???noreply@blogger.com