The Impact of New Science and Engineering Graduates on Intrastate Labor Markets

新科学与工程毕业生对州内劳动力市场的影响

• 批准号: 0422723
• 负责人: Philip Trostel
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Maine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-01-01 至 2007-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0422723&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Impact; New; Science; Engineering; Graduates

A major policy issue confronting states is the level of state support to higher education. A crucial question in this policy debate is whether a state's production of college graduates has a proportionate effect on the level of college attainment in the state. Although it is widely accepted that rising college attainment leads to rising prosperity, there is widespread concern that many new college graduates will take their state-supported degrees to labor markets in other states. The belief that state support to higher education subsidizes the workforce development of other states undermines states' incentives to promote wider access to higher education. Moreover, there is some suggestive evidence to support this view. There are compelling reasons, however, to be skeptical of this view and the existing evidence. The proposed study will explore those reasons and develop an appropriate framework to examine the impact of a state's production of college graduates on college attainment in the state. For several reasons, the emphasis will be on science and engineering (S&E) graduates. This study will use this framework and appropriate econometric methods on data from the National Center for Education Statistics' Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System and the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Current Population Survey and Occupational Employment Statistics Survey to quantify the effects of states' production of S&E graduates on state' labor markets. To be more specific, this research will estimate the effects of new S&E graduates in a state on the state's employment and wages of S&E graduates. These estimates will implicitly test alternative views on the nature of job creation for skilled labor. This research will also explore the spillover benefits from new S&E graduates on non-S&E labor markets. That is, this project will estimate the complementary effects of S&E degrees on the wages and employment in labor markets for less-skilled workers and for non-S&E graduates.

国家面临的一个主要政策问题是国家对高等教育的支持程度。这场政策辩论中的一个关键问题是，一个州的大学毕业生数量是否会对该州的大学毕业水平产生相应的影响。尽管人们普遍认为，大学学历的提高会导致经济的繁荣，但人们普遍担心，许多新的大学毕业生会把他们的国家支持的学位带到其他州的劳动力市场。认为国家对高等教育的支持会补贴其他州的劳动力发展的观点削弱了各州促进更广泛地接受高等教育的动力。此外，还有一些暗示性的证据支持这一观点。然而，有令人信服的理由对这一观点和现有证据表示怀疑。拟议中的研究将探讨这些原因，并制定一个适当的框架，以检查一个国家的大学毕业生的生产在该州的大学成绩的影响。由于几个原因，重点将放在科学和工程（SE）毕业生。本研究将使用这个框架和适当的计量经济学方法的数据从国家教育统计中心的综合中学后教育数据系统和劳工统计局的当前人口调查和职业就业统计调查，以量化的影响，国家的生产的S E毕业生对国家的劳动力市场。更具体地说，本研究将估计一个州的新毕业生对该州的就业和毕业生工资的影响。这些估计将隐含地测试关于为熟练劳动力创造就业机会的性质的其他观点。本研究亦将探讨新毕业的理工科毕业生对非理工科劳动力市场的溢出效益。也就是说，本项目将评估S E学位对低技能工人和非S E毕业生在劳动力市场上的工资和就业的互补效应。