Research Productivity of Returnees from Study Abroad in Korea, Hong Kong, and Malaysia

摘要: This study analyzes whether academics with advanced degrees from foreign universities are more research productive than their domestic counterparts in the three selected East Asian higher education systems – Korea, Hong Kong, and Malaysia. The have relatively large proportions of degree holders among professoriates. data for this is drawn Changing Academic Profession survey. In our negative binominal regression analysis, we found that not colleagues degrees, even slightly less soft disciplines (arts, humanities, social sciences) Korea unless they further post-doc experience after PhD. Furthermore, hard (natural sciences, engineering, bio-medical Finally, discuss findings attribute them to contextual differences between localities.