Trajectories from public sector of research to private sector: an analysis using french data on young PhD graduates

Pierre Béret (), Jean-François Giret and Isabelle Recotillet ()
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Pierre Béret: LEST - Laboratoire d'Economie et de Sociologie du Travail - AMU - Aix Marseille Université - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Isabelle Recotillet: CEREQ - Centre d'études et de recherches sur les qualifications - ministère de l'Emploi, cohésion sociale et logement - M.E.N.E.S.R. - Ministère de l'Education nationale, de l’Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche

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Abstract: The organisation of research is a powerful factor structuring the labour market for recent doctorate recipients. The queue for permanent research positions in the academic sector has created a specific labour market for young doctorates, characterised by a proliferation of postdoctoralprogrammes and fixed-term contracts. In that specific context, our paper deals with the way the young PhD graduates enter the labour market, the way they get a job as researcher in the private or public sector and how much the return of the job mobility from the public academic sector to the private sector is. Using a longitudinal survey provided by the Cereq, our results suggest that even if nearly the half of the cohort has a direct access to jobs in the research sector (private or public), 20% remain in trajectories dominated by under-qualifiedjobs or recurrent unemployment. Our empirical investigation show a negative or non significant returns of the job mobility from the public academic sector to the private sector.

Keywords: Marché du travail; Insertion professionnelle; Post Doctorant; Jeune; Mobilité professionnelle; France (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003
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Published in 15th Annual meeting on Socio-Economics, SASE - Society for the advancement of socio-economics, Aix-en-Provence, 26-28 juin 2003, 2003, France. pp.20

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