Determinants of securing academic interviews after tenure denial: evidencefrom a zero-inflated Poisson model

This paper uses a new data set to estimate empirically the optimal job sear ch strategies for recently non-tenured economists seeking to obtain an acad emic job. Estimates from a zero inflated Poisson model suggest that a porti on of interview counts is beyond the candidate's control as age, colour of skin, gender, and citizenship all play a part in the interview decision. A candidate can substantially enhance the probability of obtaining initial in terviews by maintaining quality research and teaching portfolios, however.