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The employment of PhDs in firms: trajectories, mobility and innovation
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Castro, Laura Melissa Cruz Menéndez, Luis Sanz |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | Labour markets for research are changing and the traditional segmentation model of the research labour market where the doctorate was mainly valuable in the academic sector is loosing ground. The paper studies a sample of PhDs and their corresponding employing firms to analyse patterns of mobility, economic returns, and innovation outputs. Qualitative and quantitative indicators are combined to tackle two sets of general questions: The first relates to the incentives for doctorate holders to pursue a company career versus an academic career. The second concerns the flexibility and/or reversibility of career options for young PhDs and the relative value of a doctorate outside academia. The results question the idea that the labour market for PhDs is tightly segmented and highlights the complementarity of PhDs’ individual competencies and collective capabilities in the assessment of innovation outputs. They also demonstrate that economic returns are significantly different by gender Laura Cruz-Castro (corresponding author) and Luis Sanz-Menéndez are both members of the research group Spanish Policy Research on Innovation & Technology, Training and Education (SPRITTE) at the Unit on Comparative Policy and Politics of the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Alfonso XII, n.18, E-28014 Madrid, Spain; Tel: +34 915 219 160 (ext. 110); Fax: +34 915218103; Email: laura.cruz@iesam.csic.es. * The authors would like to acknowledge the valuable assistance of Jaime Aja in the data handling, the useful comments of the participants in the Session “Management of Human Resources” of the Eighth International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators, Leiden 23-25 September 2004, and the suggestions of two anonymous referees. Funding is acknowledged from the National R&D Plan through a grant of the former Ministry of Science and Technology (SEC-2001-2411-C02-01) and from the Fundación COTEC. We also thank the European Union PRIME Network of Excellence for membership (CIT1-CT-2003-506596) and the Ministry of Education and Science, specially Pedro Cortegoso and Marta Zan, for access to the Register data in the context of the evaluation of the IDE Programme. |
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| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/1640/1/dt-0507.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
