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The Big Payoff: Educational Attainment and Synthetic Estimates of Work-Life Earnings
- US Census, July, 2002. " This report illustrates the economic value of an education, that is, the added value of a high school diploma or college degree. It explores the relationship between educational attainment and earnings and demonstrates how the relationship has changed over the last 25 years. Additionally, it provides, by level of education, synthetic estimates of average total earnings adults are likely to accumulate over the course of their working lives. "
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Salaries for new CalTech PhDs
- Salaries offered to and accepted by CalTech PhDs in academia and industry by discipline. Very interesting info.
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The Real Science Crisis: Bleak Prospects for Young Researchers
- Chronicle of Higher Education , September 2007. "[F]or many of today's graduate students, the future could not look much bleaker. They see long periods of training, a shortage of academic jobs, and intense competition for research grants looming ahead of them. 'They get a sense that this is a really frustrating career path,' says Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health. So although the operating assumption among many academic leaders is that the nation needs more scientists, some of brightest students in the country are demoralized and bypassing scientific careers."
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Doctoral degrees: The disposable academic | The Economist
- The Economist, December 16, 2010. "One thing many PhD students have in common is dissatisfaction. Some describe their work as slave labour. Seven-day weeks, ten-hour days, low pay and uncertain prospects are widespread. You know you are a graduate student, goes one quip, when your office is better decorated than your home and you have a favourite flavour of instant noodle. 'It isnt graduate school itself that is discouraging,' says one student, who confesses to rather enjoying the hunt for free pizza. 'Whats discouraging is realising the end point has been yanked out of reach.'"
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Mathematicians and the Market
- The stats are all for mathematicians, but the trends and ideas apply to all the sciences. A comprehensive overview of the job market for mathematicians, plus ideas on steps toward a solution. From the November 1997 issue of the Notices of the AMS.
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The Science Education Myth
- BusinessWeek, October 26, 2007. "Forget the conventional wisdom. U.S. schools are turning out more capable science and engineering grads than the job market can support."
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First-year Science & Engineering Graduate Enrollment Figures
- Data from the NSF for 1990-1997. First-year S & E enrollments peaked in 1992 and have steadily declined ever since. 1997 enrollments are down 11.5% from 1992. Astronomy is down 22%, physics is down 25%, geosciences are down 10%, math is down 26%, chemistry is down 4%. Biology, on the other hand, is up 2%, with big increases in cell biology, genetics, and pathology. (Requires Microsoft Excel to read)
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Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Outlook Handbook
- Projections for prospects in a wide variety of careers.
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S&E Ph.D. Unemployment Trends: Cause for Alarm?
- 1997 NSF Issue Brief. " Over the last two decades, the Ph.D. unemployment rate has remained below the general population rate and has exhibited less fluctuation than the rates for other educational levels. "
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Bureau of Labor Statistics U.S. Employment Projections
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How and Why Government, Universities, and Industry Create Domestic Labor Shortages of Scientists and High-Tech Workers
- by Eric Weinstein, Project on the Economics of Advanced Training, Harvard University / National Bureau for Economic Research. Working Draft.
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What's Happening in the Labor Market for Recent Science and Engineering Ph.D. Recipients?
- 1997 NSF issue brief revealing low unemployment rates for Ph.D.s but high " Involuntary Out of Field " rates.
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Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
- National Science Foundation: "This site provides data on the participation of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities in science and engineering education and employment. The data are organized by topic and are presented in tables, graphics, and spreadsheets for downloading."
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Coping with Conflicting Data: The Employment Status of Recent Science and Engineering Ph.D.s
- Peter D. Syverson, Council of Graduate Schools. " [P]rofessional societies are reporting double-digit unemployment figures at the same time that the NSF is reporting rates of less than 3 percent.... how can there be such a discrepancy? "
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Who Is Unemployed? Factors Affecting Unemployment Among Individuals with Doctoral Degrees in Science and Engineering
- A 1998 special report from the NSF Division of Science Resource Studies.
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Graduate School and the Job Market: A Survey of Young Geoscientists
- How bad IS the job market in the geosciences? The authors of this interesting article suggest that the more important questions is: " How bad do you THINK it is? " They present the results of a survey administered to over 500 geoscientists who were asked for their perceptions about the reseach job market, graduate school, and their preparation in science. The authors note that perceptions of the job market are highly correlated to specific sub-disciplines of science - broad aggregate numbers of either job supply or demand may be irrelevent to an individual's chances of landing a job.
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UCSD Graduate Student Data
- Detailed information on how UCSD Ph.D.s have fared in the labor force, including breakdowns by department. An example that should be followed by all institutions!
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1998 Annual Survey of the Mathematical Sciences (First Report)
- Faculty salary and unemployment numbers for Ph.D.s in the mathematical sciences from the Notices of the AMS . PDF file (requires Adobe Acrobat)
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Employment Outcomes of Doctorates in Science and Engineering
- Report of a 1998 CPST workshop
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Education and Employment of Biological and Medical Scientists: Data from National Surveys
- FASEB, 2007. "The figures in the following presentation are offered as an introduction to the major sources of nationally representative data on education and employment of biological and medical scientists. We hope that this compilation of graphs will foster an informed discussion of this topic. We do not seek to be exhaustive in our presentation of data, but rather to offer a starting point from which interested parties can pursue additional analyses in greater depth and detail."
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Virtual Center for Research on Graduate Education
- A web site devoted to research on graduate education, containing information both on enrollment and degree trends and on policy issues in graduate education.
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Catching Up in International Grad Students
- Inside Higher Ed, Aug 2007. "Graduate schools are reporting a continued rebound in applications from and admissions offers to those from outside the United States, but levels at most institutions still have not reached 2003 levels, according to a report being released today by the Council of Graduate Schools."
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Changing Career Paths of Young Scholars in the United States: Example of the Life Sciences
- An interesting presentation by economist Paula Stephan showing a restructuring of careers for young life scientists.
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Top 10 Actions Which Will Help Solve the Oversupply Problem for Ph.D. Physicists
- Brian B. Schwartz, CUNY Brooklyn.
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Voices: Foreign Graduate Students
- symmetry - March 2005 - "Should the United States be concerned with the drop in applications and enrollment of foreign science graduate students? If so, why?"
