Underemployed Ph.D.'sSurvey of underemployment among university graduates with Ph.D degrees in the USA, and scientists' and engineers' employment opportunities in the public sector and in nonacademic occupations in the late 1970s - examines proposals on employment policy to remedy the crisis through labour mobility; examines job satisfaction of professional workers, incl. The woman worker, trends in occupational change, wages, etc.; forecasts labour shortages of scientists and engineers. Bibliography, questionnaires, references and statistical tables. |
Contents
An Overview of | 1 |
Trends in Graduate Enrollments | 12 |
Trends in Employment Status | 18 |
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ability academic administration academic jobs Administration or management anthropologists average biologists Broad Disciplinary Area changing jobs closely related job cohort Consulting/professional services current job doctoral field doctorate holders doctorate-level humanists economists electrical engineers Employer Type employment sector engineering Ph.D.'s enrollments factor faculty members funded government jobs government workers government-employed graduate education graduate school graduate study graduate training HERI hired human-services organizations humanities Ph.D.'s income increased indicate institutions job change jobs as nontraditional laboratory/experimental less major mathematicians mathematics mechanical engineers moving from academe Multiple activities natural scientists nonacademic jobs nonfaculty academics nonhumanists nontraditional jobs overall job satisfaction Percentage Ph.D position postdoctoral previous job primary work activity private sector productive professional programs proportions psychologists public sector R&D or education reasons relatively respondents satisfied science and engineering scientists and engineers social scientists Solmon Table teaching tend tenure theoretical/other Type and Primary U.S. government underemployed underemployment universities variables women
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