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Goldan, Lea; Jaksztat, Steffen; Gross, Christiane – Research Evaluation, 2023
Previous research in different national contexts has shown that individual preferences for certain job attributes, objective labour market conditions, subjective career prospects, and external encouragement shape doctoral graduates' career decisions. For Germany, where the number of awarded doctoral degrees is highest within the European Union and…
Descriptors: Doctoral Students, College Graduates, Career Choice, Foreign Countries
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Jaksztat, Steffen; Neugebauer, Martin; Brandt, Gesche – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2021
Despite the benefits of a PhD for degree-holders as well for society as a whole, doctoral student attrition is a common phenomenon. Unfortunately, the empirical literature on dropout from doctoral education is scant, especially for non-US countries--an omission we address in the current study. Building on Tinto's model of student attrition and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Doctoral Programs, Withdrawal (Education), Student Attrition