Nonfixed Retirement Age for University Professors: Modeling Its Effects on New Faculty Hires

Effects of Age, Gender, and Retirement on Sleep Problems

1115 Effects of Age, Gender, and Retirement on Sleep Problems—Marquié et al INTRODUCTION Ageing is known to affect sleep and circadian rhythms.1 However, what we have learned about ageing and sleep up to now comes mainly from studies comparing young adults with elderly people (> 65 or 70 years). With a few exceptions,2 these studies have somewhat neglected sleep changes in middle age. Yet agein...

Impact of Retiree Health Plans on Faculty Retirement Decisions†

This paper considers the effect of retiree health insurance coverage on retirement decisions of academics, and attempts to answer two key questions of interest in this conference volume: 1) how do retiree health insurance plans affect retirement decisions? and 2) if retiree health plans are cut back or eliminated, by how much will faculty delay their retirements? I argue that the risk of uninsu...

FACTORS INFLUENCING RETIREMENT: Their Implications for Raising Retirement Age

The Ideological Orientations of Canadian University Professors

This paper analyzes the ideological orientations of Canadian university professors based on a unique 2000 study of a representative sample of Canadian academics (n=3,318). After summarizing methodological problems with extant research on this subject, and tentatively comparing the political views of Canadian and American academics, the paper demonstrates that Canadian academics fall to the left...

Faculty participation in university governance and the effects on university performance

This paper examines the relationship between faculty participation in university decision-making and university performance. Using an aggregated measure of faculty participation, McCormick and Meiners [The Journal of Law and Economics 31 (1989) 423] find that increased faculty control in decision-making is associated with lower levels of institutional performance. Building on the existing unive...