Attention (And Money) Is All You Need. Why Universities Are Struggling to Keep AI Talent.

Autor/inn/en	Akcigit, Ufuk; Chikis, Craig A.; Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Goldschlag, Nathan
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	Attention (And Money) Is All You Need. Why Universities Are Struggling to Keep AI Talent.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research (2026) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper series. w34964
Beigaben	Illustrationen
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monografie; Graue Literatur
DOI	10.3386/w34964
Schlagwörter	Künstliche Intelligenz; Einkommen; Privatisierung; Privatwirtschaft; Arbeitsmarkt; Hochschulbildung; Hochschule; Arbeitspapier; Hoch Qualifizierter; Wissenschaftler; Bibliometrie; USA
Abstract	We construct a novel dataset linking academic publication records to U.S. Census employer-employee data to track 42,000 AI researchers over two decades. We document systematic changes in the allocation of AI talent. Industry increasingly attracts younger and foreign-born researchers, while gender representation improves more in academia. The top 1% of publishing industry scientists now earn $1.5 million more annually than comparable academics, a fivefold increase since 2001. Rising wage premia coincide with greater sorting into large incumbent firms. Researchers who move to industry publish less but patent more, consistent with a shift from open science toward proprietary innovation.
Erfasst von	ZBW - Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft, Kiel
Update	2026/3