Collaborative Research on Interfirm Job Mobility, Local Labor Markets, and Organizational Dynamics: Insights from a New U.S. Longitudinal Employer-Employee Data Resource

关于公司间工作流动性、当地劳动力市场和组织动态的合作研究：来自新的美国纵向雇主-雇员数据资源的见解

• 批准号: 0617542
• 负责人: Charles Tolbert
• 金额: $ 2.26万
• 依托单位: Baylor University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0617542&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Interfirm; Job; Mobility

Over the last three decades, concern has been growing about decreases in employment stability and weakening of bonds between employers and workers. Less employment stability may mean more interruptions in health insurance coverage, decreasing or stagnating wages, and a greater chance of being employed in a nonstandard work arrangement (contingent, temporary, and involuntary part-time work). Scholars seeking to understand these trends have largely explained them in terms of individual traits, such as education and job experience. Considerably less is known about how organizational characteristics, organizational formation and dissolution, and aspects of the local labor market contribute to these processes. We will examine differences in organizational traits, such as the approaches to hiring and on-the-job training used by local business owners versus national chain stores, that may yield differences in average employee tenure. We will also consider the impact of organizational dynamics in the retail sector of local labor market, such as organizational birth, expansion, contraction, and death on job mobility. To date, few researchers have calculated these rates for U.S. local labor markets and no study has linked these dynamics to job mobility. Our research relies on newly available employment history data from the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) program. LEHD provides quarterly employer and worker/job information for all private sector, nonagricultural employees from 1990-2004. We will employ a statistical method known as event history modeling to analyze the data. The work should enhance understanding of the work histories of economically vulnerable retail workers who are at risk of transitioning into public assistance. Further, the study results should also be helpful to local leaders and policymakers who need to understand the causes and consequences of economic and social turbulence in their communities.

在过去的三十年里，人们越来越担心就业稳定性的下降和雇主与工人之间纽带的削弱。较低的就业稳定性可能意味着更多的医疗保险中断，工资下降或停滞不前，以及更大的机会受雇于非标准工作安排(临时、临时和非自愿兼职)。试图了解这些趋势的学者主要从教育和工作经验等个人特征方面对其进行了解释。人们对组织特征、组织的形成和解散以及当地劳动力市场的各个方面对这些过程的贡献知之甚少。我们将考察组织特征上的差异，例如当地企业主和全国性连锁店使用的招聘和在职培训方法，这可能会导致员工平均任期的差异。我们还将考虑当地劳动力市场零售部门的组织动态，如组织出生、扩张、收缩和死亡对工作流动性的影响。到目前为止，很少有研究人员计算出美国当地劳动力市场的这些比率，也没有研究将这些动态与就业流动性联系起来。我们的研究依赖于新获得的就业历史数据，这些数据来自纵向雇主家庭动态(Lehd)计划。Lehd提供1990-2004年间所有私营部门非农业雇员的季度雇主和工人/工作信息。我们将使用一种称为事件历史建模的统计方法来分析数据。这项工作应加强对经济脆弱的零售工人的工作历史的了解，这些工人面临着过渡到公共援助的风险。此外，研究结果还应有助于地方领导人和政策制定者了解其社区经济和社会动荡的原因和后果。