Impact of Wage Penalty on Mobility Return of French PhDs

Claire Bonnard (1, 2) , Jean-François Giret (1)

1 IREDU - Institut de recherche sur l'éducation : Sociologie et Economie de l'Education
2 CLERSÉ - Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019

Expatriation of higher-education graduates raises much concern in many countries often in conjunction with talk about the brain drain. It supposedly entails a risk of losing the skills required for a competitive economy. The issue is all the more acute for PhD graduates, who are expected to play a major part in the knowledge economy. However, questions arise as to the causes of such mobility and its consequences for young graduates' individual career paths.

Mots clés: PhD graduate; international mobility; wage; endogenous switching regression

Domaines: Education

Claire Bonnard, Jean-François Giret. Impact of Wage Penalty on Mobility Return of French PhDs. XI Jornadas de Economía Laboral, Jul 2015, Barcelone, Spain. ⟨halshs-01264442⟩