ITWF: The Effects of Information Technology on Employee Demography and Training Outcomes

机构：国家经济研究局（NBER）标题：信息技术使用对员工人口统计和雇主提供的培训的影响这个ITWF奖提供支持，分析有关企业的国家数据，他们的特点，以及他们的员工的经验，以检查有关雇主使用信息技术（IT）和就业相关结果之间关系的问题。该项目将首先分析女性和少数族裔在IT工作中的分布，不仅根据员工执行的任务进行分类，还根据工作中的IT系统进行分类。然后，它将探讨解释女性和少数族裔在It工作中的发生率的因素，包括职业道路（例如，内部晋升和临时到永久的轨道）以及员工管理方式等方面。最后，它将探讨it使用的属性与雇主提供的培训之间的关系：it密集型雇主是否提供更多的it培训，特别是对他们的it员工？当他们提供IT培训时，他们是否提供证书？如果是这样，他们为什么有能力提供这样的一般培训？调查人员将使用美国人口普查局全国雇主调查的独特数据来检查这些问题。这些编制调查分别于1994年、1997年和2000年进行，找出雇主的重要特征，包括他们对资讯科技的使用和他们的一般管理措施。2000年版还包含了对这些机构的雇员进行调查的补充资料。它确定与It相关的任务、与It相关的培训和员工的人口统计属性，例如他们是女性还是少数族裔。同样在2000年进行的《制造业人口普查关于资讯科技的补充资料》提供的资料，对各项资讯科技干预措施有特别好的衡量标准，有助加强这些数据。来自这些不同来源的数据将被合并，不仅允许检查与个人级IT任务（如编程）的关系，还允许检查与特定IT系统（如企业资源规划（ERP））的使用的关系。更详细的信息技术使用测量和个人信息技术工作者的信息相结合，可以比以往更仔细地分析信息技术使用与员工特征和就业结果之间的关系。特别是，与其将工人粗略地分类为“IT”或“非IT”工作（过去通常基于雇主的产品市场），分析可以检查IT使用程度与重要工作结果之间的关系，特别是对于女性和少数族裔。

EIA-0306012Peter CappelliInstitution: National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)Title: The Impact of Information Technology Use on Employee Demography and Employer-Provided TrainingThis ITWF award provides support to analyze national data on establishments, their characteristics, and the experiences of their employees to examine questions concerning the relationship between information technology (IT) use by employers and employment related outcomes. The project will first analyze the distribution of women and minorities in IT jobs, as classified not only by the tasks employees perform but the IT systems in place at work. It will then explore factors that explain the incidence of women and minorities across IT jobs, including aspects such as career paths (e.g., internal promotions and temp-to-permanent tracks) and how employees are managed. Finally, it will explore how attributes of IT use relate to employer-provided training: Do IT-intensive employers provide more IT training, especially to their IT workers? When they provide IT training, do they offer credentials for it? If so, what accounts for their ability to provide such general training?The investigators will examine these questions using unique data from the National Employer Surveys of the U.S. Bureau of the Census. These establishment surveys, conducted in 1994, 1997, and 2000, identify important characteristics about employers including their use of IT and their general management practices. The 2000 version also contains a Supplement that surveys employees in these establishments. It identifies IT-related tasks, IT-related training, and demographic attributes of employees such as whether they are women or minorities. These data will be enhanced by information from the Census of Manufacturing Supplement on Information Technology, also conducted in 2000, which has especially good measures of various IT interventions. The data from these different sources will be merged, allowing examination of relationships not only with individual-level IT tasks, such as programming, but also with the use of specific IT systems, such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). The combination of more detailed measures of IT use and information about individual IT workers will allow more careful analysis than ever before of relationships between IT use and employeecharacteristics and employment outcomes. In particular, rather than classifying workers crudely into "IT" or "Non-IT" jobs (in the past typically based on the employer's product market), the analyses can examine relationships between the extent of IT use and important job outcomes, especially for women and minorities.