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DrFalkyn | 9 months ago

I thought it was the exact opposite. European universities were a lot harder to get a faculty appointment. And they tended to favor local candidates , Which is why you see a lot of US universities have foreign professors, but not as many European universities that do

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geremiiah|9 months ago

I was not talking about faculty appointments, but more junior academics. For people at that level I would think it even less likely that they would upend their whole life like this. They are probably married with kids at that point.

DrFalkyn|9 months ago

In academia you are forced to go where the jobs are, or else you leave the field. Yes I have known people married with kids who move overseas