Too Many PhD Graduates or Too Few Academic Job Openings: The Basic Reproductive Number R[subscript 0] in Academia
The academic job market has become increasingly competitive for PhD graduates. In this note, we ask the basic question of ‘Are we producing more PhDs than needed?’ We take a systems approach and offer a ‘birth rate’ perspective: professors graduate PhDs who later become professors themselves, an ana...
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Wiley Blackwell
2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/93208 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3797-3917 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2776-4900 |