College location and labor market outcomes for STEM graduates in the US

Lysenko, Tetiana

doi:10.1007/s10708-022-10700-w

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“…The method used has helped us to achieve the goals. First, the bibliometric study [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] has highlighted specific works [27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35] that demonstrate the subject's increasing significance and the growing interest it holds among academic researchers today. However, the role of higher education institutions is not still determinant as it has been revealed in the network and cluster analyses.…”

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“…We have found papers reflecting on how to inspire and empower youth to pursue STEM. In the United States, the work of Lysenko and Wang [32] focuses on how to improve the employability of STEM graduates. With an interdisciplinary approach, this study develops a framework that encompasses individual attributes, university institutional characteristics, and labour market factors to explore the work experiences of STEM graduates.…”

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The EntreComp Framework in Practice: A Case Study Linking Employability, Entrepreneurship, and Regional Development

Sánchez-Hernández,

Maldonado-Briegas

2023

Sustainability

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The objective of this study is to explore the interconnections among three pertinent topics in contemporary public policy, particularly within the European context: employability, entrepreneurship, and regional development. Initially, we conduct a bibliometric analysis to identify the primary trends in this field. Subsequently, we present and analyze a case study, namely the Innovation and Talent Retour Program (PIRT 2022), which is a public initiative aimed at attracting university graduates with prior international experience. This program is part of the Entrepreneurial Culture Programs offered by the Autonomous Community of Extremadura, located in Spain. By employing a questionnaire based on the EntreComp framework and involving a sample of university graduates’ beneficiaries of the program, we validate the measurement scale and investigate whether this project contributes to the development of entrepreneurial competencies among the participants. The insights gained from the obtained results inform future programs within the region, as well as other regions undergoing similar processes. This study delves into the theoretical and practical aspects of the role played by universities as key agents in fostering the sustainability of their respective territories. It is concluded that higher education must even assume a more proactive role in the future concerning the employability of its graduates and the overall development of the surrounding region in which it is located.

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The EntreComp Framework in Practice: A Case Study Linking Employability, Entrepreneurship, and Regional Development

Sánchez-Hernández,

Maldonado-Briegas

2023

Sustainability

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“…The employment of STEM graduates has been an object for the research in recent years, mainly in the context of the US labor market [6,8,9,10,11]. However, studies of the STEM graduates' integration in the labor market also covered other countries such as the UK [2,12,13,14,15], Canada [16,17], as well as some Asian countries [18,19], including Kazakhstan [20,21].…”

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Employment of STEM graduates in Kazakhstan: current situation

Dmitrienko

Kuzhabekova

2023

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The paper analyses the current situation in sphere of STEM graduates’ employment in Kazakhstan who obtained higher and postgraduate education with the STEM profile (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) in 2021. The aim of this study is to model the trajectories of STEM graduates directly after their graduation and assess the proportions of labor flows in the context of the national labor market of Kazakhstan. For the research, official statistics from the Bureau of National Statistics on the labor market and universities performance are used. The results of the analysis show that the majority of STEM graduates in Kazakhstan directly after graduation is employed with no connection to the STEM profile of activity. At the same time, for the vast majority of those who get a job related to the STEM profile after graduation, the job is not directly related to the profile of the received education. It has been found that annual enrollment in the STEM segment of the labor market can potentially affect only less than half of the graduates of STEM programs at both undergraduate, graduate, and PhD levels. Statistical data in conjunction with the results of previous qualitative studies made it possible to assess the prerequisites of graduates who focus on the effective use of acquired skills in the labor market. There are disparities associated with the number of STEM graduates, their desire to start a career in STEM fields and the employers’ practice of hiring. Further trajectories of empirical research in STEM training and further employment are suggested, taking into account the limitations of the data sets.

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“…These ideas are echoed in the graduate migration literature, where studies have found that social and familial connections combine with job‐related factors to shape whether or where someone migrates after graduation (Imeraj et al, 2018; Nelson, 2019). Students develop social connections—and thus new place attachments—with their university's region throughout their studies and beyond, including through internships, social networks, and industry connections (Lysenko & Wang 2023; Stephens, 2019).…”

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Graduate migration, partisanship, and city preferences: An experimental approach to place‐consonant migration decisions

Ewers

Shockley

2023

Population Space and Place

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How do university students evaluate prospective jobs in different cities after graduation? While the literature has identified drivers of graduate migration, research has yet to account for the role of individual social and political attitudes in shaping destination preferences. Using a conjoint survey experiment, this paper introduces the concept of place‐consonant migration to describe the desire for proximity to like‐minded communities with respect to political partisanship. Building on research that has established the utility of experiments in evaluating complex migration decision‐making, we provided University of North Carolina at Charlotte undergraduate students with hypothetical job packages to consider upon graduation which combined the city names with randomised levels of income and amenity factors. Adapting to rapidly changing social and political dynamics, we conducted the experiment across three cross‐sections of students to capture the potential impact of the Covid‐19 pandemic and other social and political developments on the migration decisions of college graduates. The analysis demonstrates how place characteristics combine with individual partisan attitudes to produce place‐consonant migration preferences among students. Moreover, by conducting multiple waves of our experiment during contemporaneous social and political events, our results show that place‐consonant preferences change over time.

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College location and labor market outcomes for STEM graduates in the US

Cited by 4 publications

References 47 publications

The EntreComp Framework in Practice: A Case Study Linking Employability, Entrepreneurship, and Regional Development

The EntreComp Framework in Practice: A Case Study Linking Employability, Entrepreneurship, and Regional Development

Employment of STEM graduates in Kazakhstan: current situation

Graduate migration, partisanship, and city preferences: An experimental approach to place‐consonant migration decisions

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