Career mobility of PhD holders in social sciences and humanities: evidences from the POCARIM project. (2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Morettini, Lucio; Primeri, Emilia; Reale, Emanuela; Zinilli, Antonio
• Is Part Of: International journal of computational economics and econometrics. Volume 9:Number 1/2(2019)
• Page Start: 138
• Page End: 152
• Publication Date: 2019
• Subjects: career mobility -- PhD -- job market -- higher education -- career paths; Econometrics -- Periodicals; Economics -- Data processing -- Periodicals; 330.01519505
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1757-1170

Abstract

The paper aims at investigating factors that could affect the likelihood of changing job of PhD holders in the fields of social sciences and humanities (SSH). We use data collected through a survey developed within the POCARIM project (funded by the EC under the EUFP7) in order to analyse variations in PhDs' career paths in a longitudinal dimension: we consider the career of each agent as a whole and investigate what elements related to individual features can influence career's entropy in terms of changes of sector and/or country.