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Titre : | Professionnel paths of french young PhD earners : « taste for science » faces labor marketâs reality |
Auteurs : | Julien Calmand ; DEHEMS Conference (septembre 2011; Vienne) |
Type de document : | document Ă©lectronique |
Année de publication : | 2011 |
Format : | 23 p. |
Langues: | Anglais |
Catégories : |
Affiliation Céreq Céreq - DEEVAThésaurus CEREQ COLLOQUE ; DOCTORAT ; INSERTION PROFESSIONNELLE ; ENQUETE GENERATION 2001 ; ENQUETE GENERATION 2004 ; ENQUETE GENERATION 2007 ; ACTIVITE DE RECHERCHE ; CHERCHEUR |
RĂ©sumĂ© : | In the knowledge society young PhD graduates should have a major role in our economy. They play a central part in the dissemination of âscientific and technical human capitalâ (Dasgupta et David, 1994[5]) in the academic sector but also in the private sector. However, data in several countries shows that PhD graduates are facing growing difficulties in the labor market (Enders, 2002[7] ; Ma et Stephan, 2005[14]; Bonnal et Giret, 2009[2]) In France, more than 70% of them wants to work in public research or academic sector when they enter in the labor market but only 40% of them manage to find a job in this two sectors. Also when they donât find this kind of job, some of PhD graduates are unemployed (10%), in fact PhD earners have much more probability to be unemployed 3 years after graduation than graduates from engineering or business school or graduates from master degree, they also have greater chances to have fixed terms contract especially in fields of study where post doctorate experience has become necessary for working in academic sector. The aim of this article is to study PhD graduateâs paths during their first 3 years in the labor market. We use the "GĂ©nĂ©ration" survey made by the CĂ©req (Centre dâ Etudes et de Recherches sur les Qualifications) "GĂ©nĂ©ration 2004". This survey analyses transition from school to work of graduates in 2004. In "GĂ©nĂ©ration 2004" there is a sample of 1400 graduates from PhD in 2004 and surveyed in 2007. This sample is representative of the population of PhD earners in terms of field of study or type of education grant. "GĂ©nĂ©ration 2004" is a longitudinal survey; it includes monthly information on the various stages occupied on the labor market during 3 years. In terms of methodology, we will study paths of PhD graduates who wanted to work in academic sector at time of graduation. Our idea is to define a concept of "typical path" in order to obtain several representative and homogeneous path from the 1400 in our database. A multinomial model will give us "all things being equals" the impact of graduatesâ characteristics on their path. The major interest of this study is to analyze breaking points in trajectories. These breaks are for example transition from fixed terms contract to unlimited contract in academic research or reorientation from academic research to public or private sectors (outside or inside the research) but also to unemployment. Those breaks can be related to personal study project during initial school time period . Our first results show that transition from work to school for PhD graduates are related to conditions of the thesis period (sources of financial supports obtained during the Phd , nature of the research laboratory, numbers of scientific publications...). As a summary, first cumulative advantages in the first years of the thesis have a major impact on the scientific productivity of young PhD graduates but also on professional path. |
Document Céreq : | Non |
n° fiche programme : | 49 |
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