TY  - JOUR
AU  - Ehrenberg,Ronald G.
AU  - Kasper,Hirschel
AU  - Rees,Daniel I.
TI  - Faculty Turnover at American Colleges and Universities:  Analysis of AAUP Data
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 3239
PY  - 1990
Y2  - January 1990
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3239
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3239.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Cornell Higher Education Research Institute
271 Ives Hall East
Ithaca, NY  14853-3901
Tel: 607/255-3026
Fax: 607 255 4496
E-Mail: rge2@cornell.edu

Daniel I. Rees
University of Colorado Denver
Department of Economics
Campus Box 181
P.O. Box 173364
Denver, CO 80217-3364
E-Mail: Daniel.Rees@ucdenver.edu
AB  - This paper uses institutional level data collected by the American Association of University Professors as part of their annual survey of faculty members' compensation to analyze faculty turnover. Analyses of aggregate data over almost a twenty-year period highlight how remarkably stable faculty retention rates have been nationwide and how little they vary across broad categories of institutions. Analyses of variations in faculty retention rates across individual institutions stress the role that faculty compensation levels play. Higher levels of compensation appear to increase retention rates for assistant and associate professors (but not for full professors) and the magnitude of this effect grows larger as one moves from institutions with graduate programs, to four-year undergraduate institutions, to two-year institutions.
ER  -