TY - JOUR
T1 - Understanding country differences
T2 - Predicting the effect of financial and labor market conditions on international doctoral recipients’ first labor market destination
AU - Agbonlahor, Osasohan
AU - Ampaw, Frim
N1 - Funding Information:
Table 1 presents the descriptive statistics of the categorical variables. For the sample, about 23% of international students who graduated between the period of 2011–2016 chose to return to their home country or a foreign country for employment while 77% chose to work in the United States. Sixty-two percent of the students obtained their doctorate degrees in STEM fields: biological sciences (18%), physical sciences (29%), and engineering (25%). Half of the students were from upper-middle income countries, followed by high-income countries (25%), lower-middle income countries (22%), and low-income countries (2.4%). Almost half of the students were from East Asia and the Pacific, followed by South Asia (17.96%), Europe and Central Asia (12.95%), Middle East and North Africa (8.79%), Latin America and the Caribbean (7.2%), Sub-Saharan Africa (3.25%), and North America (3.14%). Sixty percent of the sample had a previous degree from the United States. The majority of students were supported by a research assistantship (47%), and 83% of them indicated having secondary financial support in addition to their primary sources of funding.
Publisher Copyright:
© Journal of International Students.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - This study used the Survey of Earned Doctorates, World Bank economic data of the doctoral students’ home country, and hierarchical linear modeling analysis to examine the effects of financial factors and home-country macroeconomic indicators on international doctoral students’ labor market destinations. We found that wealth disparities and economic opportunities in the home country affect international doctoral student outcomes. Higher gross national income per capita was associated with decreased likelihood of remaining in the United States, while higher unemployment rates in the home country significantly increased the likelihood of remaining in the United States. The study reveals a need to develop career services support for international doctoral students that are tailored to their needs as well as the need to internationalize the curriculum to support those who will eventually return to their home country.
AB - This study used the Survey of Earned Doctorates, World Bank economic data of the doctoral students’ home country, and hierarchical linear modeling analysis to examine the effects of financial factors and home-country macroeconomic indicators on international doctoral students’ labor market destinations. We found that wealth disparities and economic opportunities in the home country affect international doctoral student outcomes. Higher gross national income per capita was associated with decreased likelihood of remaining in the United States, while higher unemployment rates in the home country significantly increased the likelihood of remaining in the United States. The study reveals a need to develop career services support for international doctoral students that are tailored to their needs as well as the need to internationalize the curriculum to support those who will eventually return to their home country.
KW - Economic opportunities
KW - International doctoral recipients
KW - Labor market outcome
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85107980994&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.32674/jis.v11i2.1420
DO - 10.32674/jis.v11i2.1420
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85107980994
SN - 2162-3104
VL - 11
SP - 459
EP - 483
JO - Journal of International Students
JF - Journal of International Students
IS - 2
ER -
