Smith, Emma and White, Patrick (2022) Moving along the STEM pipeline? The long-term employment patterns of science, technology, engineering and maths graduates in the United Kingdom. Research Papers in Education, 37 (4). pp. 457-478. doi:10.1080/02671522.2020.1849374 ISSN 0267-1522.

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Concerns over the supply of highly-skilled (HS) science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) workers are well established and have been a feature of policy discourse in the UK for more than 50 years. Since the 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union, these concerns have been exacerbated by uncertainty about the movement of labour between UK and Europe. More recently, the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of STEM skills in a wide range of areas. However, despite continued government investment in initiatives to address these concerns, the evidence base for shortages is neither well-established nor compatible with economic theories of labour supply. In order to fill a gap in the current evidence, we report on a unique analysis following the career destinations of STEM graduates from the 1970 British Cohort Study. While only a minority of STEM graduates ever work in highly-skilled STEM jobs, we identified three particular characteristics of the STEM labour market that may present challenges for employers: STEM employment appears to be predicated on early entry to the sector; a large proportion of STEM graduates are likely to never work in the sector; and there may be more movement out of HS STEM positions by older workers than in other sectors.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education L Education > LC Special aspects of education
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Education Studies (2013- )
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Skilled labor , Professional employees -- Great Britain, Technical education -- Great Britain, Professional employees -- Employment, College graduates -- Employment -- Great Britain, Labor supply -- Great Britain
Journal or Publication Title:	Research Papers in Education
Publisher:	Routledge
ISSN:	0267-1522
Official Date:	August 2022
Dates:	Date Event August 2022 Published 24 November 2020 Available 6 September 2020 Accepted 5 June 2020 Submitted
Volume:	37
Number:	4
Page Range:	pp. 457-478
DOI:	10.1080/02671522.2020.1849374
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights):	This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Research Papers in Education. Smith, Emma and White, Patrick (2022) Moving along the STEM pipeline? The long-term employment patterns of science, technology, engineering and maths graduates in the United Kingdom. Research Papers in Education, 37 (4). pp. 457-478. doi:10.1080/02671522.2020.1849374. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.”
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Copyright Holders:	Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Date of first compliant deposit:	17 August 2022
Date of first compliant Open Access:	17 August 2022
RIOXX Funder/Project Grant:	Project/Grant ID RIOXX Funder Name Funder ID EDO 41245 Nuffield Foundation http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000279

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