Effects of Studying Abroad on Academic Career Choices of Doctoral Graduates:Evidence from a Survey of Global Doctoral Programs in China
With the rising upsurge of overseas doctoral graduates returning to China and the change in domestic academic labor market,the tendency of overseas doctoral graduates to return to academic careers and its influencing path urgently require evidence-based exploration.Based on the data of the micro-survey of global doctoral programs in 2019 and 2022,this paper explores the impact of overseas study experience on the path of entering academic career in China.It is found that the academic career choices of doctoral graduates highly rely on the dual inherent mechanisms of human capital and social capital.The overseas doctoral graduates have comparative advantages in transnational human capital characterized by academic ability and generic skills in the domestic academic labor market,but they are at a disadvantage in the social relationship network constructed by internal social capital.Compared with general skills and external social networks,academic productivity and internal social capital have a greater positive impact on promoting the choice of domestic academic departments of overseas doctoral graduates.The policy implications of the above findings lie in the continuous expanding of the joint training channels of doctoral students and maintaining a high level of opening up to the outside world to meet lifelong employability needs,and building a four-helix innovation ecosystem of"university-industry-government-society"in a hierarchical manner,so as to create a diversified and innovative institutional space for the future career path of doctoral graduates.
overseas studydoctoral graduatestransnational human capitalacademic careercareer intention
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