Gerontocracy, labor market bottlenecks, and generational crises in modern science.

Autor/in	Siler, Kyle
Titel	Gerontocracy, labor market bottlenecks, and generational crises in modern science. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Gerontokratie, Arbeitsmarktengpässe und Generationenkrisen in der modernen Wissenschaft.
Quelle	(2023), 37 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	SocArXiv papers
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
DOI	10.31235/osf.io/xw6ua
Schlagwörter	Forschung und Entwicklung; Unsicherheit; Wohnen; Gerechtigkeit; Großstadt; Kosten; Lebenshaltungskosten; Wettbewerb; Berufschance; Befristeter Arbeitsvertrag; Beschäftigungssituation; Universität; Wissenschaft; Akademiker; Internationaler Vergleich; Arbeitspapier; Auswirkung; Generationenverhältnis; Innovationsfähigkeit; Welt; Berufsanfänger; Wissenschaftlicher Nachwuchs
Abstract	"Many Early Career Researchers (ECRs) currently face long odds attaining a full-time or tenure-track research position. Populations of graduate and postdoctoral researchers have continually increased, without concomitant increases in tenure-track jobs or stable research careers. The current hypercompetitive academic labor market is societally inefficient and often inhumane to ECRs, commonly characterized by precarious, exploitative and/or uncertain employment terms. Compounding the generational disadvantages endured by many ECRs at work, analysis of worldwide data on housing rental costs reveals that escalating costs-of-living are an especially acute problem for ECRs, since major research universities tend to be located in expensive cities. The unfavorable plight of today's ECRs can be partly attributed to disproportionate distribution of resources to senior academics, particularly of the baby boomer generation. The uncertainty, precariousness and hypercompetitiveness of ECR academic labor markets undermine the quantity and quality of scientific innovations, both in the present and the future." The study refers to the period 2023-2023. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku)..
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2024/1