Italian Universities Careers: A Competing Risks Analysis

• Activity Number: 415
• Type: Contributed
• Date/Time: Tuesday, August 2, 2011 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
• Sponsor: Business and Economic Statistics Section
• Author(s): Matilde Bini*+ and Bruno Monastero and Margherita Velucchi
• Companies: European University of Rome and Politecnico di Torino and University of Florence
• Keywords: competing risks analysis ; survival analysis ; university careers

Abstract

University teachers are a fundamental component for the research and teaching activities development. In modern societies, it is extremely important to adopt strategic policies of recruitment, promotion and retirement of the academic personnel to improve the turn-over, to satisfy the needs of planning of research and teaching activities, as well as to improve the efficiency of the related economic activities. In this work, we propose to analyze determinants that affect careers promotions of the Italian academic staff from 1988 to 2008 academic years. The study uses a generalized survival analysis (competing risks analysis) that allows to consider the promotion as the cause of failure, and teachers can be considered to be exposed to more than one cause of failure. Information such as sex, age, length of service, job position, academic branch and salaries, universities of teachers are collected in data set provided from Ministry of Research and Italian Consortium of Universities (CINECA).