Job Satisfaction Among Ph.D. Holders: How much do Regional Divides and Employment Sectors matter?

Parenti, Benedetta; Pinto, Mauro; Sarno, Domenico

doi:10.1057/s41307-020-00210-0

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“…Not surprisingly, these variables report highly statistically significant ( p < 0.01) coefficients whose remarkable magnitude suggests that they play a significant role in explaining job-education matching satisfaction. This finding is in line with the previous one by Parenti et al (2020), who point out that PhD holders' job satisfaction is crucially and positively driven by having the chance to carry out R&D-based jobs. This is not surprising, since PhD holders are fundamentally trained to carry out these activities.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Looking at Italy, Gaeta (2015) and Ermini et al (2017) consider a large sample of PhD holders with different specializations and find that, on average, being employed in the non-academic sector is correlated with a higher probability of experiencing job-education mismatch. Consistently with these results, Parenti et al (2020) show that doctoral graduates employed in universities reveal higher satisfaction for job-education matching than those working in the non-academic private or public sector.…”

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confidence: 79%

“…The existing literature has driven the choice of the control variables included in the x vector of equation (1) on drivers of PhD holders' sectoral choices (Bloch et al , 2015) and occupational outcomes (de Lourdes Machado-Taylor et al , 2016; Di Paolo, 2016; Escardíbul and Afcha, 2017; Parenti et al , 2020).…”

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Non-academic employment and matching satisfaction among PhD graduates with high intersectoral mobility potential

Alfano

Gaeta

Pinto

2021

IJM

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PurposeThis paper contributes to the empirical analysis of PhD holders' transition into the non-academic labor market (i.e. their intersectoral mobility). The research focuses on doctoral graduates specialized in a field of study supposed to have notable non-academic applications, namely Industrial and Information Engineering. We inspect whether these doctoral graduates experience lower satisfaction with PhD knowledge use on the job when they work outside universities and non-public research centers.Design/methodology/approachWe use cross-sectional survey data collected by the Italian National Institute of Statistics in 2014. Ordinary least squares and ordered logit analyses provide baseline results; furthermore, we apply a multinomial endogenous treatment model to control for potential bias arising from self-selection into employment sectors.FindingsWe find evidence that for PhD holders Industrial and Information Engineering being employed in the industrial and services sector implies lower satisfaction with the use of doctoral knowledge than that reported by their counterparts working in universities or public research centers.Originality/valueThese results complement and extend previous evidence about PhD holders' career outcomes by focusing on the intersectoral mobility issue and on a specific group of doctoral graduates whose intersectoral mobility potential is expected to be high. Our findings call for policies that might trigger a better alignment between doctoral education and non-academic jobs.

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Non-academic employment and matching satisfaction among PhD graduates with high intersectoral mobility potential

Alfano

Gaeta

Pinto

2021

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“…160-170;Schwabe, 2011) and associated with personal, doctoral, and job characteristics (Bender & Heywood, 2006;Canal Domínguez, 2013;Di Paolo, 2016;Enders & Bornmann, 2001, pp. 193-196;Escardíbul & Afcha, 2017;Moguérou, 2002;Parenti et al, 2020;Waaijer et al, 2017). The latter studies largely agree that earnings, relative pay, management positions, company size, and job adequacy are positively associated with doctoral graduates' job satisfaction and that partnerships have no effect.…”

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How does obtaining a permanent employment contract affect the job satisfaction of doctoral graduates inside and outside academia?

2022

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Previous research has shown that temporary employment is negatively associated with many psychological and job-related outcomes, such as well-being, health, wages, organisational commitment, and job satisfaction. Among recent doctoral graduates, the proportion of temporary contracts is particularly high. However, research on the association between contract type and job satisfaction specifically among doctoral graduates is scarce. Therefore, whether and how obtaining permanent employment affects doctoral graduates’ job satisfaction remains a notable research gap that we intend to narrow by using panel data from a recent doctoral graduation cohort and by adopting a panel research design. We examine what effect obtaining permanent employment has on doctoral graduates’ job satisfaction and whether this effect differs by labour market sector. We use panel data that are representative of the 2014 doctoral graduation cohort in Germany and their career trajectories up to five years after graduation. We apply fixed-effects regression to approximate the within-effect of obtaining a permanent employment contract on job satisfaction. The analyses indicate that obtaining permanent employment increases doctoral graduates’ job satisfaction and that this increase is not driven by time-varying confounders. We also find that doctoral graduates’ labour market sector moderates the effect: the increase in job satisfaction is highest in the academic sector and statistically significantly different from that in the private sector. Overall, this paper offers new insights into the effect of obtaining a permanent contract on the job satisfaction of recent doctoral graduates throughout their first years after graduation, when they are often employed on temporary contracts.

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“…However, PhD holders employed in the academic spheres were less satisfied with factors such as pay and job promotion because of lower wages and less attractive work conditions compared to those working in the private sector. While the study of the job satisfaction factors among the PhD graduates in Italy revealed that job satisfaction of PhD graduates was linked to the ability to carry out the Research and Development–based jobs (Parenti et al. , 2020).…”

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Job satisfaction in telecommunications industry: empirical study in Uzbekistan

Inoyatova

Isakov

2022

IJSE

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PurposeThe purpose of this study is to investigate the level of job satisfaction among employees in the telecommunications company in Uzbekistan and assess the effects of demographic and work-related variables on job satisfaction.Design/methodology/approachA survey questionnaire method was used to obtain the data from 403 employees working in the telecommunications company in Uzbekistan. The data were collected using the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire short-form.FindingsThe results of the study indicated a significant effect of age and tenure on the job satisfaction. Age was found to be positively associated with the job satisfaction and intention to stay. The older employees are more likely to be satisfied and stay with the current company for the next 5 years. The tenure was also found to be positively correlated with the overall job satisfaction and intrinsic job satisfaction. It also has been revealed that male employees are less likely than female employees to stay in the company for the next 5 years ceteris paribus. According to the survey results, there was no significant impact of education level, gender, marital status or job field on the job satisfaction of the employees.Originality/valueThe results of the study demonstrate interesting job satisfaction findings of employees working in the telecommunications company in Uzbekistan, which can draw attention of the senior management and human resource departments to increase the level of job satisfaction levels among employees and start implementing the job satisfaction measures within the companies in Uzbekistan in order to create effective human resource management systems and retain qualified employees.

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Job Satisfaction Among Ph.D. Holders: How much do Regional Divides and Employment Sectors matter?

Cited by 10 publications

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Non-academic employment and matching satisfaction among PhD graduates with high intersectoral mobility potential

Non-academic employment and matching satisfaction among PhD graduates with high intersectoral mobility potential

How does obtaining a permanent employment contract affect the job satisfaction of doctoral graduates inside and outside academia?

Job satisfaction in telecommunications industry: empirical study in Uzbekistan

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