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| Titre : | Why Do French Engineers Find Stable Jobs Faster than PhDs? (2021) |
| Auteurs : | David N. Margolis ; Egidio Luis Miotti |
| Type de document : | Article : document électronique |
| Dans : | Revue économique (vol. 72, n° 4, 2021/4) |
| Article en page(s) : | pp. 555-589 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Thésaurus CEREQ INGENIEUR ; DOCTORAT ; CHERCHEUR ; INSERTION PROFESSIONNELLE ; JEUNE ; PROJET PROFESSIONNEL ; MESURE JEUNE ; ENQUETE GENERATION 2004 ; ECONOMETRIE ; MODELISATION ; FRANCE |
| Résumé : | This paper studies why PhDs in France take longer to find stable jobs than engineers. Using data from CEREQ’s “Génération 2004” survey, we show that job finding rates of PhDs are lower than those of engineers and document the differences in their observable characteristics and fields of study. We show that this phenomenon is due to multiple factors: heterogeneity in student characteristics along observable and unobservable dimensions and fields of study, directed search toward public sector positions (especially professors) among PhDs and, in all likelihood, reservation wages of PhDs for private sector jobs that are “too high” relative to their value of marginal product. |
| Document Céreq : | Non |
| En ligne : | https://doi.org/10.3917/reco.724.0555 |
