Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Impacts of Underemployment in the New Economy

博士论文研究：新经济中就业不足的影响

• 批准号: 1203135
• 负责人: Devah Pager
• 金额: $ 0.98万
• 依托单位: Princeton University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-04-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1203135&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Impacts; Underemployment

SES-1203135Devah Pager and David PedullaPrinceton UniversityAbstractDoctoral Dissertation Research: The Impact of Underemployment in the New EconomyIn recent years, a phenomenon called "precarious work," which includes underemployment, temporary and contract employment, part-time work, and long-term unemployment, has grown rapidly. While social scientists have begun to address its consequences for employers and employees, important gaps remain. This project examines two central issues. First, using survey- and field-experimental methods, the dissertation examines the impact of precarious employment histories on future employment patterns for individual workers. It also examines how the effects of these employment histories differ across demographic groups. Second, the project explores the consequences of this shift for full-time, permanent employees in organizations that rely on such contingent employees. Broader Impacts The recent economic downturn has resulted in growing rates of under- and unemployment. Findings from this research may improve our understanding of sectoral and economic change as well as growing income inequality in the U.S. Findings from this research may be of interest to the general public as well as policy efforts designed to create jobs, both permanent and temporary. Findings may also be of interest to employers, for whom downsizing and hiring strategies carry both known and unknown opportunity costs.

近年来，一种被称为“不稳定工作”的现象迅速增长，它包括不充分就业、临时工和合同工、兼职工作和长期失业。虽然社会科学家已经开始着手解决它对雇主和雇员的影响，但重要的差距仍然存在。这个项目探讨了两个核心问题。首先，采用调查和实地实验的方法，本文考察了不稳定的就业历史对个体工人未来就业模式的影响。它还研究了这些就业历史对不同人口群体的影响。其次，该项目探讨了这种转变对依赖此类临时员工的组织中的全职、永久员工的影响。更广泛的影响最近的经济衰退导致了就业不足和失业率的上升。这项研究的结果可能会提高我们对美国部门和经济变化以及日益严重的收入不平等的理解。这项研究的结果可能会引起公众的兴趣，也可能会引起旨在创造就业机会的政策努力的兴趣，无论是永久性的还是临时性的。研究结果也可能引起雇主的兴趣，对他们来说，裁员和招聘策略既有已知的机会成本，也有未知的机会成本。