INFORMAZIONI UNIVERSITARIE

Author: Benedetto Torrisi. Business and Economics Department, Economic Statistical Area, University of Catania, Catania, Italy. 2023
European academic labor markets are experiencing many changes aiming at similar objectives: the establishment of better regulated internal labor markets and the affirmed role of the university level in the management of the newly introduced incentive mechanisms. This general trend carries with it comparable implications. The presence in Europe of an academic systems salary, which is clustered into five groups, certainly limits the European vision of the academic system; in addition, the influence of factors characterizing each country or each group confirms the assumption. These differences can be attributed to local context factors, contractual factors and factors such as economic well-being. These three main systems interact strongly with the level of wages in Europe; they exert a positive influence on the average wage. With this study we can not support the initial hypothesis of this paper. In Europe it is not possible to hypothesize a single model of salaries for academics. The policy that should be adopted imagines a unified European wage model. This policy should standardize plans for funding research, identifying relationships with businesses and the territory, monitoring the academic productivity, and developing a single contract system and an equal in value related to the GDP of each country. Complex and large policies do not suggest possibilities for the development of a unique academic model wage.
Our attempt to study the diversity and wage determinants leads us to these conclusions, which have enabled us to provide a broad understanding of the phenomena studied and the reasons for refusal. (from Conclusions).