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SALARIES OF RECRUITS TO UNIVERSITY TEACHING IN BRITAIN
Author(s) -
METCALF DAVID,
BIBBY JOHN
Publication year - 1947
Publication title -
higher education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.976
H-Index - 42
eISSN - 1468-2273
pISSN - 0951-5224
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2273.1947.tb02090.x
Subject(s) - salary , equity (law) , higher education , demographic economics , unit (ring theory) , subject (documents) , psychology , medical education , political science , mathematics education , economics , economic growth , medicine , library science , law , computer science
This paper investigates the determinants of the salaries of recruits to university teaching. The data sources are the University Grants Committee survey of recruits 1967–68, and a special survey of recruits to twenty universities undertaken by the Higher Education Research Unit at L.S.E. in 1969. Salaries of recruits are regressed on grade, age, subject, university type, quality of first degree and highest degree attained. The regression results generally accord with the theoretical predictions. However, the more substantive result is that (excluding grade) the age variable is the dominant influence on salary. The influence of subject taught on salary is surprisingly low given that the different subjects comprise non‐competing groups. This tentatively suggests that equity considerations are more important to universities than economic efficiency considerations when universities set recruits' salaries.