Are PhDs winners or losers? Wage premiums for doctoral degrees in private sector employment

Pedersen, Heidi Skovgaard

doi:10.1007/s10734-015-9901-y

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“…Only occasionally, research casts light on preferences for salary and career as such-with evidence that disfavours research for the sake of research (Roach & Sauermann, 2010). This problem is exacerbated by the fact that PhD-holders do not accrue particular advantages in the labour market outside academia in comparison to a Master graduate, at least for the private sector (Pedersen, 2016). The conundrum of having spent years in doing research and finding oneself in a precarious and/or dead-end career trajectory remains a reality for many PhD-holders.…”

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“…A wide body of literature has pointed out the critical role of the labour market for PhD-holders; especially noting the importance of non-academic employment (Caparros-Ruiz, 2019;Cruz-Castro & Sanz-Menéndez, 2005;Enders, 2002;Jackson & Michelson, 2015;Mangematin, 2000;Neumann & Tan, 2011;Pedersen, 2016;van der Weijden et al, 2016). PhD-holders have been detected as a group undergoing segmentation-meaning that PhDholders will have to get non-academic positions in any economic sector due to shortage of positions in academia and in other public research institutes, especially tenured or secure positions.…”

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The employment destination of PhD‐holders in Italy: Non‐academic funded projects as drivers of successful segmentation

Marini

2022

Euro J of Education

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In high‐income countries in recent years, the non‐academic labour market destination of PhD‐holders, i.e., the segmentation by industry sector of destination, has emerged as an issue. Universities and other research‐intensive institutions can no longer absorb the major share of PhD‐holders. Their employment has become a matter of segmentation both horizontally in terms of the economy and vertically in terms of income. The article reports on outcomes from analysis that tested what factors segment labour market outcomes in two dimensions: (1) the economic sector and (2) income. Findings suggest that scientific mobility and type of funding during PhD studies do not play a notable role. Instead, some types of experiences such as a postdoctoral research position, predict exit from academic employment and also a higher income overall. The most significant experiences that contribute to segmentation are in fact projects funded by private companies or international organisations in postdoctoral periods. Implications for policy making are relevant for both PhD‐holders, universities and external organisations. For instance, maximising collaborations between non‐academic employers and universities is likely to produce beneficial outcomes for PhD‐holders.

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The employment destination of PhD‐holders in Italy: Non‐academic funded projects as drivers of successful segmentation

Marini

2022

Euro J of Education

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“…We proxy the broad job experience by means of the dummy empl_after . Dummies to represent fields of study are included as there may be different labour market opportunities and financial rewards across fields (Pedersen, ). As common in the empirical literature, we include job related variables to track weekly working hours ( workhour ) and sector of activity ( sector ), which are categorical variables whose modalities are briefly reported in Table .…”

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“…As a second contribution, we focus on Ph.D holders, the most educated segment of workers but the least analysed group in the existing literature. The earnings of graduates or lesser educated workers have been largely investigated while lesser evidence is available on Ph.D holders (Bender & Heywood, , ; Di Cintio & Grassi, ; Di Paolo & Mañé, ; Pedersen, ). Our study devotes attention to specific research‐intensive occupations.…”

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Wage returns to interregional mobility among Ph.D graduates: Do occupations matter?

Ermini

Papi

Scaturro

2019

Papers in Regional Science

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This paper addresses the wage returns to interregional mobility among Italian Ph.D workers. We control for selection bias in both migration and occupation choice by estimating a double sample selection model. While OLS estimates indicate a positive wage premium of mobility across all types of occupations examined, wage equations estimated by correcting for double sample selection evidence a wage penalty for movers within academia, no effects for movers carrying out R&D activities but positive returns if they work within the industry sector. The selection process appears to be stronger when mobility choice is considered in comparison to the choice of occupation.

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“…Ainda mais recentemente, o uso crescente das novas tecnologias (Manly, Leonard e Riemenschneider, 2014), a competição gradual entre instituições (Heyneman, 2013) e a afirmação no mercado de trabalho por via da posse de um grau académico (Pedersen, 2015), conferem um novo alcance e uma nova profundidade ao conceito.…”

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Are PhDs winners or losers? Wage premiums for doctoral degrees in private sector employment

Cited by 17 publications

References 23 publications

The employment destination of PhD‐holders in Italy: Non‐academic funded projects as drivers of successful segmentation

The employment destination of PhD‐holders in Italy: Non‐academic funded projects as drivers of successful segmentation

Wage returns to interregional mobility among Ph.D graduates: Do occupations matter?

Políticas institucionais, em Portugal, relativas à fraude académica

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