Industry or Academia, Basic or Applied? Career Choices and Earnings Trajectories of Scientists

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  2013

• Venue

  Management Sciences

• Publication date

  2013-04-01

• Fields of study

  Computer Science, Economics

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  DOI 10.1287/mnsc.1120.1582
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