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Table 8 Labour market outcomes of PhD graduates, by industry

From: Same degree but different outcomes: an analysis of labour market outcomes for native and international PhD students in Australia

 

Wages

Employed full-time

Looking for new job

 

University

Other

University

Other

University

Other

Pooled data

      

Native NESB

 − .032**

(.015)

 − .033***

(.007)

 − .066***

(.021)

.024**

(.012)

.165***

(.028)

.085***

(.015)

Foreign ESB

 − .096***

(.032)

 − .053***

(.013)

 − .086

(.055)

.004

(.017)

.170**

(.079)

.054**

(.024)

Foreign NESB

 − .139***

(.026)

 − .075***

(.013)

 − .261***

(.030)

 − .020

(.018)

.200***

(.027)

.117***

(.017)

Adj. R2

.2108

.2694

.1123

.0548

.0856

.0355

Nr observations

4,411

14,666

4,411

14,666

4,411

14,666

  1. All observations with complete information. The reference group is the natives ESB. The covariates used in the model are human capital controls (gender, age, age square, if disable, if Aboriginal, if English is main language spoken at home, if graduated from Go8 university, if worked in last year of study, mode of attendance, share of foreign students in same field of education and university), institutional and labour market controls (lagged average wage and lagged unemployment rate by field of study and year), and dummy variables for the survey year and the geographical location of the employer. Adjustment is made for selection into emigration. Standard errors are clustered by university. The signs *, **, and *** indicate p-values of < .1, < .05, and < .01, respectively