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Jouni Helin

@helinjouni.bsky.social

University teacher by day, PhD student by night. I do research on selection to higher education. University of Jyväskylä, FI.

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Jouni Helin@helinjouni.bsky.social · last yr.

Miten valikoituneita tohtorikoulutetut ovat sosioekonomisen taustan perusteella Euroopassa? ➡️ Sosiaalinen liikkuvuus tohtoritasolle korkeinta Pohjoismaissa — mutta... ➡️ Liikkuvuus yleisestikin korkeaa ➡️ Erot maiden välillä pieniä Uusi tutkimuksemme (open access): doi.org/10.1162/euso...

Artikkelin abstrakti: Despite increasing concerns over socioeconomic barriers in access to doctoral education, relatively little is known about the degree to which PhDs are selected in terms of their social background. In this paper, we use combined data on over 200 000 individuals from the European Social Survey, the European Values Study, and the World Values Survey to estimate the strength of the relationship between parental education and child PhD attainment within 26 European countries. We find that intergenerational mobility into PhD degrees is somewhat higher in the Nordic countries, and somewhat lower in the Eastern European countries in our sample, but also that mobility is generally high, that PhDs are socioeconomically diverse, and that mobility differences between the countries in our sample are generally small.
Jouni Helin@helinjouni.bsky.social · 2y ago

Yliopistojen ja ympäröivän yhteiskunnan välinen vuorovaikutus on aiemmin osoitettua voimakkaampaa — erityisesti tieteenaloilla, joilla sitä stereotyyppisesti voisi ehkäpä vähiten odottaa. Siinä pähkinänkuoressa uuden tutkimuksemme tulos. Lyhyt 🧵 (1/10)

Abstract: Tacit knowledge flows can be facilitated by employment transitions, such as for example the transitions of PhDs from university employment to industry. There are however barriers to transitions into and out of university employment, and as a consequence, such transitions are relatively rare. PhDs can circumvent the barriers to permanent transitions by simultaneous secondary employment relationships. Though we know that such cross-employment exists, we do not know how common it de facto is. In this paper, we use a nine-year panel of daily-level employment microdata on the full population of Finnish PhDs to show that about 30% of university-employed PhDs are cross-employed outside of universities. This is a substantial share, and its magnitude alone suggests a central but underappreciated role for cross-employment in contemporary knowledge production and dissemination. We furthermore find that [...]