Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/177001 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 11197
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper studies why PhDs in France take longer to find stable jobs than engineers. Using data from CEREQ's "Génération 2004" survey, we show that job finding rates of PhDs are lower than those of engineers and document the differences in their observable characteristics and fields of study. We show that this phenomenon is due to multiple factors: heterogeneity in student characteristics along observable (but not unobservable) dimensions and fields of study, directed search toward public sector positions (especially professors) among PhDs and reservation wages of PhDs for private sector jobs that are "too high" relative to their value of marginal product.
Subjects: 
school-to-work transition
STEM
directed search
wage subsidies
JEL: 
J24
I23
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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