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How much is a professor worth? It might help to know what professors are actually paid and how that figure compares with other salaries — and with the salaries of academics in other countries. But as Philip Altbach and his colleagues at the Center for International Higher Education discovered, such questions are a lot easier to ask than to answer. 大学教授价值几何？想回答这个问题，可能需要了解大学教授的实际工资以及与其他职业的数据比较，当然还有与其他国家学者工资的比较结果。美国芝加哥大学国际高等教育研究中心教授阿特巴赫及其同事的研究发现，这样的问题好问却不好答。 In a new book, “Paying the Professoriate,” to be published this month, Mr. Altbach and his co-editors examine academic salaries, contracts and benefits in publicly funded universities in 28 countries. They depict a world increasingly divided “into two categories — brain drain and brain gain,” as countries with more resources siphon off academic talent from poorer countries. They also show a profession that in many countries is subject to a widening gap between professors at top research universities and those who work at colleges devoted mainly to teaching. 阿特巴赫教授的新书《大学教授薪酬面面观》将于本月发布。在书中阿特巴赫教授和其他几位合著者调查了学术领域的工资水平，并且比较和分析了28个国家公立大学的工资水平和福利。他们的调查研究揭示了在世界范围内，随着资源丰富的国家从较贫困的国家越来越多的吸收人才资源，学术领域逐渐分化成两种范畴：人才流失和人才引进。研究还显示，不同国家的同一个职业，在顶尖高等大学工作的教授和主要负责教学的学院老师之间，薪资的差距也在逐渐拉大。 | 
