Educational Training and Careers of PH.D. Holders. Academic Training and Occupational Mobility: Ph.D.'s Often Find Other Scientific Fields Greener. Final Report.

Autor/in	Morris, Jeffrey
Institution	Washington Univ., Seattle.
Titel	Educational Training and Careers of PH.D. Holders. Academic Training and Occupational Mobility: Ph.D.'s Often Find Other Scientific Fields Greener. Final Report.
Quelle	(1973), (37 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Doctoral Degrees; Educational Background; Graduate Study; Higher Education; Occupational Mobility; Research Projects; Skill Development; Specialization; Transfer of Training; Undergraduate Study + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Doctoral degree; Doktorgrad; Vorbildung; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Berufliche Mobilität; Forschungsvorhaben; Kompetenzentwicklung; Qualifikationsentwicklung; Arbeitsteilige Spezialisierung; Training; Transfer; Ausbildung; Grundstudium
Abstract	The occupational transferability of skills learned in school and on the job has been studied very little. This paper reports some estimates of the monetary trade-off between specialization and occupational flexibility in the Ph.D's choice of major at undergraduate and graduate school. These estimates are based for the most part on multiple regression analysis of educational background and career data for a sample of 30,000 Ph.D.'s in the sciences. These data indicate that Ph.D.'s whose education is more occupationally specific, because they took the same field as an undergraduate major as that in which they earned their Ph.D., have career mobility that is 10% lower than those Ph.D.'s whose education was less specialized. In addition, when a specialist moves out of her Ph.D. occupation she receives a salary increment for the occupational switch that is about $800 less than the non-specialist's. On the other hand, specialists who remain employed in their Ph.D. field earn a return of about $80 per year on the extra skill they acquired in their Ph.D. specialty by taking the same field as an undergraduate major. (Author)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2004/1/01