Doctoral Dissertation Research: Intern Experiences and Pathways to Labor Market Entry

史蒂文·洛佩兹科里·佩奇俄亥俄州立大学实习已经成为职业培训中无处不在的组成部分。了解实习生什么时候被剥削，什么时候被重视，对于理解劳动力市场进入至关重要。此前对实习的研究主要集中在行业案例研究上。这篇论文是第一次对专业和实习地点进行比较研究，以解决这个问题--在什么条件下实习是不稳定的工作，在什么条件下实习是通往职业生涯的垫脚石？回答这个问题既适用于社会科学，也适用于关于经济的国家话语，涉及政策制定者、企业和忧心忡忡的公民关注的问题。这个项目将帮助个人和机构在利用实习机会方面做出更好的决定。本研究采用纵向访谈研究设计，共分两波访谈。第一波是采访四个专业的大四学生，询问他们的实习情况。它们是商业/运营和物流；工业工程；英语；和通信。第二波在一年后跟进。这一设计将实习与大学专业和劳动力市场准入联系起来。本研究对劳动社会学、经济社会学、教育社会学都有贡献。工作的早熟和不安全感是工作社会学中一个经常讨论的话题。这项研究将考察雇主如何使用实习生，以及他们的劳动过程对实习生的经历和结果的影响。理论上，不那么早熟应该会增加劳动力市场的机会，但经济社会学表明，其他因素可能比实习的内容更重要。这项研究将增加关于非劳动过程因素，如社交网络或与同事的社交能力，如何影响实习经验和结果的知识。本研究对教育社会学也有一定的贡献。关于劳动力市场进入的相互竞争的理论，如专业是构建人力资本还是充当筛选工具，将被这项研究裁定。

SES-1602772Steven LopezCorey PechOhio State UniversityInternships have become a ubiquitous component of job training. Gaining an understanding of when interns are exploited, and when they are valued, is essential to understanding labor market entry. Previous studies of internships focus on industry case studies. This dissertation is the first comparative study of majors and internship sites to address the question -- under what conditions are internships precarious work and under what conditions are they a stepping stone to a career? Answering this question has application to both the social sciences and national discourse about the economy, speaking to issues salient to policymakers, corporations, and a concerned citizenry. This project will help individuals and institutions make better decisions about utilizing internships. This study makes use of a longitudinal interview research design with two waves of interviews. Wave one involves interviewing college seniors in four majors about their internships. These are Business/Operations and Logistics; Industrial Engineering; English; and Communications. Wave two follows up one year later. This design links internship to college major and labor market entry. This study makes contributions to the sociology of work, economic sociology, and the sociology of education. Precarity and insecurity of work is a much-discussed topic in the sociology of work. This study will examine how interns are used by employers and the effects of their labor process on interns' experiences and outcomes. In theory less precarity should increase chances in the labor market, but economic sociology suggests other factors might be more important than the content of the internship. This study will add to knowledge on how non-labor process factor, such social networks or sociability with coworkers, affect internship experiences and outcomes. This study can also make contributions to the sociology of education. Competing theories on labor market entry such as whether majors build human capital or act as a screening device will be adjudicated by this research.