The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget expansion from 1998 through 2003
increased demand for biomedical research, raising relative wages and total employment in …

Abstract A National Institutes of Health (NIH) taskforce recently recommended decreasing
the number of graduate students supported on research assistantships, and instead favoring …

Discussions about science and engineering postdoctoral researchers focus almost
exclusively on academic postdocs and their chances of eventually securing tenure-track …

This paper explores the relationship between wages and the scientific orientation of R&D
organizations. Firms that adopt a science-oriented research approach (ie,“science”) allow …

The economic health of nations and regions is increasingly coming to rest on the scientific
and technical labor force conducting scientific research. As such, enormous social resources …

The US biomedical scientific enterprise has a long, deep history of innovation, global
leadership, and scientific advancements that have improved the health and wellbeing of …

Abstract The United States has experienced an unsustainable increase of the biomedical
research workforce over the past 3 decades. This expansion has led to a myriad of …

Is the labor market for US researchers experiencing the best or worst of times? This paper
analyzes the market for recently minted Ph. D. recipients using supply-and-demand logic …

Even though academic research is often viewed as the preferred career path for PhD trained
scientists, most US graduates enter careers in industry, government, or “alternative careers.” …

Purpose Postdocs make up a significant portion of the biomedical workforce. However, data
about the postdoctoral position are generally scarce, and no systematic study of the …