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- Title
Research Workforce Diversity: The Case of Balancing National versus International Postdocs in US Biomedical Research.
- Authors
Ghaffarzadegan, Navid; Hawley, Joshua; Desai, Anand
- Abstract
The US government has been increasingly supporting postdoctoral training in biomedical sciences to develop the domestic research workforce. However, current trends suggest that mostly international researchers benefit from the funding, many of whom might leave the USA after training. In this paper, we describe a model used to analyse the flow of national versus international researchers into and out of postdoctoral training. We calibrate our model in the case of the USA and successfully replicate the data. We use the model to conduct simulation-based analyses of effects of different policies on the diversity of postdoctoral researchers. Our model shows that capping the duration of postdoctoral careers, a policy proposed previously, favours international postdoctoral researchers. The analysis suggests that the leverage point to help the growth of domestic research workforce is in the pregraduate education area, and many policies implemented at the postgraduate level have minimal or unintended effects on diversity. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MEDICAL sciences; POSTDOCTORAL programs; POSTDOCTORAL researchers; DIVERSITY in education; RESEARCH
- Publication
Systems Research & Behavioral Science, 2014, Vol 31, Issue 2, p301
- ISSN
1092-7026
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/sres.2190