Geographies of Occupational Attainment

职业成就的地域

• 批准号: 0110497
• 负责人: James Harrington
• 金额: $ 13万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2004-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0110497&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Geographies; Occupational; Attainment

How a worker comes to claim a particular occupation in a particular place, or how a place comes to contain a cadre of workers with a particular occupation, are vitally important economic and social questions. This research takes an institutional approach to the individual's gaining and using occupation-specific skills and to the local availability of occupation-specific labor. The objective of the research project is to compare the sources (by type and location) of computer programmers' training across regions, industrial sectors, and personal characteristics. The research will first use secondary data such as censuses to investigate the relationships between rates of occupational attainment and various institutional factors for all Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States. Case studies of five mid-sized metropolitan areas with a high proportion of programmers will be made via phone and in-person interviews with key employers and institutional leaders. The key questions to be investigated are: sex and race; current employment arrangement and tenure; approximate age and location at which the individual gained original training as a programmer; motivations for occupational and locational choices; earlier careers and parents' occupations; and incidence and sponsorship of further training. The information from both types of interviews will be used to relate local characteristics of labor-force size, employer size, employment practices, and growth rates to the locations and ways in which programmers gained and maintained their skills. For anyone in the labor force, one's occupation and one's location largely determine one's employment outcomes. For the region, the local availability of trained workers is key to local economic well-being. This project provides an understanding of the general process between location and occupational attainment. In addition, the proposed project selects one particular occupation, computer programmer, that has been the object of much interest and debate. The contribution of the proposed research lies in its combination of: recognition of institutional influences on individual behavior and regional outcomes; attention to training and migration decisions; attention to the paths of women and minorities within an occupation dominated by white men; and secondary data for all metropolitan regions as well as exploratory, interview data in five specific regions.

一个工人如何在一个特定的地方拥有一个特定的职业，或者一个地方如何容纳一批从事特定职业的工人，是极其重要的经济和社会问题。 本研究采用制度方法来研究个人获得和使用特定职业技能以及当地特定职业劳动力的可用性。 该研究项目的目的是比较不同地区、行业和个人特征的计算机程序员培训来源（按类型和地点）。 该研究将首先使用人口普查等二手数据来调查美国所有大都市统计区的职业成就率与各种制度因素之间的关系。 将通过对主要雇主和机构领导人的电话和面对面采访，对程序员比例较高的五个中型大都市区进行案例研究。 要调查的关键问题是：性别和种族；目前的雇佣安排和任期；该人接受程序员原始培训的大致年龄和地点；选择职业和地点的动机； 早期职业和父母的职业； 进一步培训的发生率和赞助。 两种类型访谈的信息将用于将劳动力规模、雇主规模、就业实践和增长率等当地特征与程序员获得和保持技能的地点和方式联系起来。对于劳动力中的任何人来说，一个人的职业和一个人的地点在很大程度上决定了一个人的就业结果。 对于该地区来说，当地训练有素的工人是当地经济福祉的关键。 该项目提供了对地点和职业成就之间一般过程的理解。 此外，拟议的项目选择了一种特定的职业，即计算机程序员，该职业一直是人们广泛关注和争论的对象。 拟议研究的贡献在于它的结合：认识到制度对个人行为和区域结果的影响；关注培训和迁移决策；关注白人男性主导的职业中女性和少数族裔的道路；所有大都市地区的二手数据以及五个特定地区的探索性访谈数据。