Science and engineering careers in the United States : an analysis of markets and employment / edited by Richard B. Freeman and Daniel L. Goroff.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Richard B. Freeman and Daniel L. Goroff -- I. Supply of Students and Postdoctoral Fellows to Science and Engineering -- 1. Supporting "The Best and Brightest" in Science and Engineering: NSF Graduate Research Fellowships / Richard B. Freeman, Tanwin Chang and Hanley Chiang -- 2. Internationalization of U.S. Doctorate Education / John Bound, Sarah Turner and Patrick Walsh -- 3. Improving the Postdoctoral Experience: An Empirical Approach / Geoff Davis -- II. Careers in Changing Markets -- 4. Immigration in High-Skill Labor Markets: The Impact of Foreign Students on the Earnings of Doctorates / George J. Borjas -- 5. Does Science Promote Women? Evidence from Academia 1973-2001 / Donna K. Ginther and Shulamit Kahn -- 6. Patterns of Male and Female Scientific Dissemination in Public and Private Science / Kjersten Bunker Whittington -- 7. Educational Mismatch among Ph.D.s: Determinants and Consequences / Keith A. Bender and John S. Heywood -- 8. Capturing Knowledge: The Location Decision of New Ph.D.s Working in Industry / Albert J. Sumell, Paula E. Stephan and James D. Adams -- III. Creation and Use of Knowledge -- 9. Instruments of Commerce and Knowledge: Probe Microscopy, 1980-2000 / Cyrus C. M. Mody -- 10. International Knowledge Flows: Evidence from an Inventor-Firm Matched Data Set / Jinyoung Kim, Sangjoon John Lee and Gerald Marschke -- 11. The Growing Allocative Inefficiency of the U.S. Higher Education Sector / James D. Adams and J. Roger Clemmons.