Nationally Representative Survey on Financialization, Work Organization, and Job Training

美国劳动力市场最近出现了收入不平等加剧和低薪工作激增的局面。一些人认为，这些发展背后的一个驱动力是经济金融化程度的提高。这种观点认为，来自股东、金融机构和金融化管理战略的压力已经改变了公司和管理者的工作结构方式，潜在地减少了公司对人力资本的投资，并侵蚀了工作质量，有利于增加利润。因此，短期的财务考虑取代了对工人和公司都有利的更有远见的管理方法。尽管这些断言的频率很高，但支持数据却很少。该项目通过对三个行业的商业机构进行具有全国代表性的调查来评估这些论点。这些数据将被用来检验工作结构和质量的变化是否与金融化指标的变化有关。该项目反映了社会对经济不平等以及美国经济中高薪和低薪工作分布变化的担忧。这些信息将引起关心就业和经济增长的政策制定者的兴趣，无论是在全国范围内，还是在州和地方各级。该项目将构建一项具有全国代表性的机构调查，调查对象为三个行业的机构，这些机构属于金融化程度较高和较低的匹配公司，目标样本规模为1,200-1,600家机构。这些行业包括：1)专业、科学和技术服务业；2)计算机和电子制造业；3)零售业。这种对行业的选择使人们能够集中关注金融化压力如何影响科技工作者，以及这些压力与其他行业的压力有何不同。调查将询问有关工作质量和结构的详细问题，包括工资、临时劳动力、技能需求、工作期限、培训和晋升政策等问题。目标受访者为受雇于随机抽取的商业机构的人力资源经理。编制调查将与财务、公司治理和股东所有权方面的滞后公司级指标联系起来，这些指标来自先前研究中使用的几个商业数据库。调查数据的独特性将允许分析公司级指标和机构级工作成果之间的关系。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The U.S. labor market has recently seen both increased income inequality and proliferation of low-wage jobs. Some contend that a driving force behind these developments is increased financialization of the economy. This argument holds that pressures stemming from shareholders, financial institutions, and financialized management strategies have altered the way firms and managers structure jobs, potentially diminishing firm investments in human capital and eroding job quality in favor of increased profits. Thus, short-term financial considerations have displaced more far-sighted management approaches that are beneficial to both workers and firms. Despite the frequency of these assertions, supporting data are scarce. This project evaluates these arguments by conducting a nationally representative survey of business establishments across three industries. The data will be used to test whether variation in job structure and quality are related to variation in measures of financialization. The project speaks to societal concerns regarding economic inequality and changes in the distribution of high- and low-wage jobs in the U.S. economy. This information will be of interest to policymakers concerned with job and economic growth both nationally and at the state and local levels. This project will construct a nationally representative survey of establishments in three industries that are part of matched firms that have been subjected to greater and lesser levels of financialization, with a targeted sample size of 1,200-1,600 establishments. These industries include: 1) professional, scientific, and technical services; 2) computer and electronic manufacturing; and 3) retail. This choice of industries allows for focused attention on how financialization pressures affect science and technology workers and how these pressures differ from those found in other industries. The survey will ask detailed questions about job quality and structure, including questions about wages, contingent labor, skill demands, job tenure, training, and promotion policies. The target respondents are human resource managers who are employed at the randomly-selected business establishments. The establishment survey will be linked with lagged firm-level indicators of financialization, corporate governance, and shareholder ownership drawn from several business databases used in prior research. The uniqueness of the survey data will allow analyses of relationships between firm-level indicators and establishment-level work outcomes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.