Are There Gender Differences in the Job Mobility Patterns of Academic Economists? by Christiana Hilmer and Michael Hilmer. Published in volume 100, issue 2, pages 353-57 of American Economic Review, May 2010

Women Helping Women, Men Helping Women? Same-Gender Mentoring, Initial Job Placements, and Early Career Publishing Success for Economics PhDs by Christiana Hilmer and Michael Hilmer. Published in volume 97, issue 2, pages 422-426 of American Economic Review, May 2007

We analyze a unique data set containing annual salary and detailed job and publication histories for a sample of 1,009 faculty members drawn from 53 public Ph.D.-granting economics departments. Empirical results suggest that all else equal: (1) statistically significant negative returns to seniority exist within lower-ranked but not top 15 programs; (2) more frequent movers observe statistically higher annual salaries in lower-ranked but not top 15 programs; and (3) for each level of seniority, faculty in top 15 programs are more likely to move at any point in the career than faculty in lower-ranked programs.