CRA Bulletin, October 25, 2005

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

CRA Bulletin
October 25, 2005
www.cra.org/bulletin

====== Headlines ======

- "STEM Employment and Salaries, 1994-2003"
- "GAO Report on Federal STEM Programs and Trends"
- "Math & CIS Undergrad Enrollments Drop at Canadian Universities"
- "PCAST Assumes PITAC’s Role"
- "Migration Patterns of S&E Doctorates"
- "Global R&D in 2004, Projected to 2006"
- "Extended Mass Layoffs and Outsourcing/Offshoring"
- "IT Sector Employment"
- "Offshoring and the IT Workforce"
- "Plans to Study or Work Abroad Among U.S.-Born S&E Doctorate  
Recipients"

====== Stories ======

STEM Employment and Salaries, 1994-2003

The previous post discussed a recent GAO report on science,  
technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) programs and data  
trends. Part of the report discusses STEM employment and salaries.  
Between 1994 and 2003, employment in all STEM fields increased 23  
percent, and 78 percent in the mathematics/computer sciences.  
Employment in non-STEM fields increased 17 percent...
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=61

GAO Report on Federal STEM Programs and Trends

A recent GAO report found that only about half of the programs run by  
13 federal civilian agencies that are designed to increase the  
numbers of students and graduates or improve educational programs in  
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields have  
been evaluated for their effectiveness. Without evaluations, the GAO  
argues that it is difficult to determine which methods are successful  
at improving participation in STEM fields...
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=60

Math & CIS Undergrad Enrollments Drop at Canadian Universities

Canadian university undergraduate enrollments in mathematics,  
computer and information sciences (M&CIS) declined for the second  
consecutive year, to 35,880 students in 2003/04. This was the only  
major field to show a decline in both 2002/03 and 2003/04. Within  
M&CIS, computer and information sciences saw a 7.5% drop in  
enrollments in 2003/04.
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=59

PCAST Assumes PITAC’s Role

President Bush ordered that the President’s Council of Advisors for  
Science and Technology (PCAST) shall now serve as the President’s  
Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC)...
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=58

Migration Patterns of S&E Doctorates

Over 70 percent of U.S.-born, AY1999 S&E doctorate recipients  
received their degree from an institution in a state other than the  
one in which they first entered college, according to an NSF  
InfoBrief...
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=57

Global R&D in 2004, Projected to 2006

R&D spending by the U.S. totalled $301.5 billion in 2004, according  
to a report by R&D Magazine and Battelle. The next biggest spenders  
were Japan ($119.8 billion) and China ($108.9 billion). At 2.7  
percent of GDP, U.S. R&D spending came in 7th among 33 countries...
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=56

Extended Mass Layoffs and Outsourcing/Offshoring

Data from 2004 show that a higher proportion of extended mass layoffs  
among large employers in the IT sector resulted in work moving  
outside of the U.S. than among industries overall, according to a  
report by Sharon Brown and Lewis Siegel in Monthly Labor Review...
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=55

IT Sector Employment

Below are two helpful tables from the Monthly Labor Review article  
that I discussed in an earlier post. They detail the size of the  
labor force and unemployment rates among IT-sector SOC codes. As with  
employment projections, these tables show how diverse the “IT  
workforce” is...
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=54

Offshoring and the IT Workforce

According to a recent Monthly Labor Review article by Robert  
Bednarzik, offshoring has played a relatively moderate role in  
overall job losses in the IT sector, although it has had a stronger  
impact on certain occupations...
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=53

Plans to Study or Work Abroad Among U.S.-Born S&E Doctorate Recipients

The number of U.S.-born science and engineering (S&E) doctorate  
recipients with definite plans to work or study abroad has been about  
300-400 each year since the mid-1960s, or between 2 and 4 percent of  
graduates, according to an NSF InfoBrief. The majority (71 percent)  
of those who went abroad did so for postdoctoral study...
http://www.cra.org/wp/index.php?p=52

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