Abstract
The proliferation of postdoctoral training in academia calls for an empirical assessment of its roles in trainees’ career development. This study fills in the gap by examining a representative sample of academic scientists and engineers working at research extensive universities, finding that postdoctoral training hardly facilitates scientists’ pursuit of early tenure or promotion, nor helps to better off individual niches in the prestige hierarchy once they successfully land academic employment. Academic success proves to be shaped by the interplay between organizational context and individual efforts, the latter further constrained by both career and organizational structures.
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