Abstract
This article analyzes research and teaching quality of the faculty members of the Department of Business Economics of “Universitat de les Illes Balears” (UIB) depending on the origin of their Doctor degree (local or external). This department changed the recruitment policy, from the traditional policy of hiring the own doctorate students to the policy of hiring doctorate students from other universities. Faculty members with an external Doctor degree were recruited mainly in the Spanish Job Market, most of them obtained the Doctor degree in a high-quality doctorate program, and were focused on research. Taking into account several control variables, such as age and specialization area, we obtain that faculty members with external Doctor degree show statistically significant better research quality indicators, and present no significant differences in teaching quality indicators than faculty members with a UIB Doctor degree. Therefore, we conclude that the recruitment policy of the department increased research quality without hurting teaching quality. This represents an indirect analysis of the relationship between research and teaching quality, showing a strategy to improve one without hurting the other. However, when we analyze the direct relationship between research and teaching quality we obtain some weak evidence of a negative relationship.
Highlights
Spanish public universities are well known for their recruitment practices, primarily based on endogamy
Empirical models of teaching and research quality estimated with Ordinary Least Squares with year fixed effects on an unbalanced panel data set of faculty members of the Department of Business Economics of Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB)
We analyze the relationship between research and teaching quality through the analysis of the quality of faculty members depending on the origin of their Doctorate degree since those with external Doctorate are more focused on high-quality research
Summary
Spanish public universities are well known for their recruitment practices, primarily based on endogamy. Spanish universities avoiding the recruitment of their own Doctors usually hire new faculty from high-quality doctorate programs and these candidates focus their effort on research activities. The object of this article is to empirically study whether research quality increases and teaching quality deteriorates when universities hire faculty from high-quality doctorate programs who focus on research activities. We analyze the Department of Business Economics of Universitat de les Illes Balears (UIB) from 2009 to 2017 This department changed its recruitment policy more than ten years ago, forbidding explicitly the recruitment of their own doctorate students. Our contribution is especially relevant to the public debate on the recruitment policies in Spanish universities, providing evidence supporting that forbidding the recruitment of the own doctorate students in order to hire faculty focused on high-quality research does not deteriorate teaching quality, and increases research quality
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