DOCTORAL GRADUATES IN THE LABOR MARKET IN THE CONTEXT OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY
DOCTORAL GRADUATES IN THE LABOR MARKET IN THE CONTEXT OF THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

Author(s): Alexandru Anichiti
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Social Sciences, Labor relations, Higher Education
Published by: Editura Universităţii »Alexandru Ioan Cuza« din Iaşi
Keywords: doctoral graduates; trend analysis; knowledge economy; labor market;
Summary/Abstract: The future of jobs is characterized by insecurity. As jobs become more complex, more individuals will not have adequate education and training as required by the labor market. During the last decades, the labor markets around the world have been subject to a perpetual transition from blue-collar jobs to white-collar jobs. This generated the necessity of more educated and better-trained individuals to face the new technological changes. The key component of this new economy, also called the knowledge economy is a dependence on intellectual capabilities than on physical inputs. This article is a literature review on the employment trends and perspectives of doctoral graduates. The aim of this study is the examination of doctoral employment opportunities. The choice of the topic was given by the insufficient systematization of the specialized literature (lack in the Romanian space, but and in the international research of an approach to such a study). The research methodology consists of statistical indicators regarding the situation of doctoral graduates on the labor market and the qualitative analysis of the results. The results of the literature review were that doctoral graduates are more desirable by employers due to the set of skills that they developed, and therefore have a much lower unemployment rate and higher earnings.

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