138 Int. J. Computational Economics and Econometrics, Vol. 9, Nos. 1/2, 2019 Copyright © 2019 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. Career mobility of PhD holders in social sciences and humanities: evidences from the POCARIM project Lucio Morettini*, Emilia Primeri, Emanuela Reale and Antonio Zinilli Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth, National Research Council of Italy (IRCRES – CNR), Via dei Taurini, 19, 00185, Roma, Italy Email: lucio.morettini@ircres.cnr.it Email: emilia.primeri@ircres.cnr.it Email: emanuela.reale@ircres.cnr.it Email: antonio.zinilli@ircres.cnr.it *Corresponding author Abstract: The paper aims at investigating factors that could affect the likelihood of changing job of PhD holders in the fields of social sciences and humanities (SSH). We use data collected through a survey developed within the POCARIM project (funded by the EC under the EUFP7) in order to analyse variations in PhDs’ career paths in a longitudinal dimension: we consider the career of each agent as a whole and investigate what elements related to individual features can influence career’s entropy in terms of changes of sector and/or country. Keywords: career mobility; PhD; job market; higher education; career paths. Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Morettini, L., Primeri, E., Reale, E. and Zinilli, A. (2019) ‘Career mobility of PhD holders in social sciences and humanities: evidences from the POCARIM project’, Int. J. Computational Economics and Econometrics, Vol. 9, Nos. 1/2, pp.138–152. Biographical notes: Lucio Morettini is a Researcher at the National Research Council of Italy – Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth (IRCrES – CNR). He has taken his PhD in Economics at the University ‘La Sapienza’ of Rome with a thesis on Economics of Education in 2010. He is interested in research policy and research evaluation, effects of university design on job market and influence of social background on education choices. He has been a Research Fellow at National Research Council of Italy – Institute for the Study of Regionalism, Federalism and Self Government (ISSIRFA – CNR) where he has developed a dataset of public and private R&D expenditure at local level. This dataset has been used to develop analysis on the use of European R&I structural funds and his effects on local system of innovation. Emilia Primeri, Political Scientist, has a PhD in evaluation of the internationalisation of the University. Since February 2008 she is research fellow at IRCRES CNR (Research Institute on Sustainable Economic Growth – former CERIS – of the National Research Council) participating in several European and national research projects. Her main research interests concern policies for higher education and governance systems, evaluation of public research, the study of features and impact of joint programming at the EU level