A report by the research staff association in DCU is linked below. It outlines a viewpoint on the difficulties of being on research staff as opposed to traditional academic staff -
http://www.ducra.dcu.ie/documents/buildingRearcherCareers.pdf
the huge recent literature on returns to PhD, PhD matching, skill biased technological change are all interesting with regard to thinking about issues involved. Ireland is working on doubling the number of PhD's in Irish universities and substantially increasing the number of researchers working in the universities. Most of the people who read this blog are part of this in one way or another.
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