Expansion of doctoral training and doctorate recipients‘ labour market outcomes: evidence from German register data
Bünstorf, G., König, J., Otto, A. In many countries around the world, the number of new doctorate recipients graduating from universities has grown sharply in the past few decades, but the implications of this expansion for the employment situation of doctorate recipients remain largely unexplored in longitudinal studies. In Germany, as in various other countries,…
Postdoctoral employment and future non-academic career prospects
König, J. Most recipients of doctorates leave universities some years after graduation, while little is known about their future non-academic career prospects. I report results from a novel microlevel database that links information about doctoral dissertations completed in Germany with doctorate recipients’ social security records. The results, based on graduates’ individual careers for five broader…
Studie: Mit der Promotion nach wie vor gute Karrierechancen
Heute (19. 2.) erscheint der neue Bundesbericht Wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs (BuWiN), der eine Bestandsaufnahme zur Situation junger Forscher/-innen in Deutschland liefert. Das International Centre for Higher Education Research (INCHER) der Universität Kassel hat in einem Projektverbund mit dem DZHW und dem Regionalen Forschungsnetz des IAB Rheinland-Pfalz-Saarland eine Begleitstudie verfasst. Nur jeder fünfte bis sechste Promovierte arbeitet…
‘See you soon?!’ Mobility, competition and free-riding in decentralized higher education financing
Geissler, M., & König, J. Highly skilled human capital is usually also highly mobile. Concerns regarding interregional migration revolve aroundsuboptimal publicfinancing of higher education rooted in free-riding behaviour if budget responsibilities aredecentralized. This investigation sets out to answer whether cross-state mobility of students in general and individualtaste variation in the preference for‘home’and‘university’states in particular justify…
Räumliche Implikationen verstärkter Drittmittelorientierung in der Hochschulfinanzierung
Blume, L., Brenner, T., Bünstorf, G., & König, J. The article investigates spatial implications of the recent shift towards merit-based public research funding in German science policy since the late 1990s. The empirical results presented indicate advantages for regions with an encompassing innovative milieu and larger overall university size. The factors directly targeted by the…
A supervised machine learning approach to trace doctorate recipients’ employment trajectories
Heinisch, D. P., Koenig, J., & Otto, A. Only scarce information is available on doctorate recipients’ career outcomes (BuWiN, 2013). With the current information base, graduate students cannot make an informed decision on whether to start a doctorate or not (Benderly, 2018; Blank et al., 2017). However, administrative labor market data, which could provide the…
Interrelated funding streams in a multi-funder university system: Evidence from the German Exzellenzinitiative
Buenstorf, G., & Koenig, J. Using the Zukunftskonzepte funding line of the German Exzellenzinitiative as our empirical setting and employing a difference-in-differences approach, we study interrelations in the competitive funding of research projects. Our results indicate that enhanced inequality introduced through the Exzellenzinitiative was partially offset by changes in the allocation of resources from other…
Reporting errors and biases in published empirical findings: Evidence from innovation research
Bruns, S. B., Asanov, I., Bode, R., Dunger, M., Funk, C., Hassan, S. M., … & Buenstorf, G. Errors and biases in published results compromise the reliability of empirical research, posing threats to the cumulative research process and to evidence-based decision making. We provide evidence on reporting errors and biases in innovation research. We find…
Replication and robustness analysis of ‘energy and economic growth in the USA: A multivariate approach’
Bruns, S. B., König, J., & Stern, D. I. We replicate Stern (1993), who argues and empirically demonstrates that it is necessary (i) to use quality-adjusted energy use and (ii) to include capital and labor as control variables in order to find Granger causality from energy use to GDP. Though we could not access the…
Regional effects of university funding: Excellence at the cost of regional disparity?
We investigate regional repercussions of the recent shift toward focusing academic excellence in German science policy. We find that the regional concentration of merit-based public research funding has increased since the late 1990s. However, it is challenging to identify the characteristics of winning and losing regions. There is some evidence indicative of advantages for regions…
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I am research at the University of Kassel and the INCHER-Kassel on the field of economics of science. It is important to me to conduct research on topics that are of social as well as academic importance.
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