Collaborative Research: Skills, Majors, and Jobs: Does Higher Education Respond?

合作研究：技能、专业和工作：高等教育有反应吗？

• 批准号: 1919425
• 负责人: Brad Hershbein
• 金额: $ 5.36万
• 依托单位: W E Upjohn Institute for Employment Research
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1919425&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Skills; Majors; Jobs

Rapid technical progress leads to skill obsolescence, yet educational institutions and students are slow to respond to these changes in the labor market. This research project will use a large data set on changes in skill demand and college enrolments by major and the content of majors to investigate two interrelated questions: (i) what skills are associated with each college major and how does skill demand vary over time and space? (ii) how do higher education course-offerings and student course-taking respond to changes in demand for skills? The research will be based on data on all job postings over a time matched with data on all course offering (and their content) in a state. The results can help institutions respond to skill demand by rapidly changing the content of their curricula and educational policy makers plan better. The results will also help guide students not only in their choice of majors but also the courses and skills they choose to acquire in their chosen majors. By providing inputs into policies that align skill needs and skill training in a rapidly changing technological work place, this research will help US educational institutions provide the skills the economy needs, hence lead to rapid economic growth and improved well-being of Americans.This project will use merged data from the Burning Glass project and the Delaware Cost Project which has department level panel data on credits, courses and faculty as well as individual level data on student course taking, quasi-experimental methods and machine learning techniques to investigate how college students and college administration respond to changes in labor skill demand. Specifically, it investigates what skills are associated with each college major, how within major cross-major skills demand differ across space and through time, and how skill investment responds to changes in skill demand in the labor market. Previous studies have focused on the demand side of skill acquisition; this project will however look at how skill supply (by university providers and students) respond to changes in skill demand by exploring several aspects university curriculum that makes these supply responses possible. The quasi-experimental methods permit causal identification of the effect of changes in skill demand on human capital investment. The project will explore differential responses at lower-division, upper-division, and graduate levels. The results of this research will provide guidance on policies to align skill investment to changes in skill demand and in so doing will provide the needed skills and lead to faster economic growth.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.

快速的技术进步导致技能过时，但是教育机构和学生对劳动力市场的这些变化的反应缓慢。 该研究项目将使用专业的技能需求和大学入学变化以及专业的内容进行研究的大量数据集，以调查两个相互关联的问题：（i）每个大学专业的技能以及技能需求随时间和空间的变化如何变化？ （ii）高等教育课程和学生课程培训如何应对技能需求的变化？这项研究将基于与所有课程（及其内容）在州的所有课程产品相匹配的时间上的所有职位发布的数据。 结果可以通过快速更改其课程内容和教育决策者计划更好地计划来帮助机构应对技能需求。 结果还将帮助学生选择专业的选择，还可以帮助他们选择在所选专业中获得的课程和技能。 By providing inputs into policies that align skill needs and skill tr​​aining in a rapidly changing technological work place, this research will help US educational institutions provide the skills the economy needs, hence lead to rapid economic growth and improved well-being of Americans.This project will use merged data from the Burning Glass project and the Delaware Cost Project which has department level panel data on credits, courses and faculty as well as individual level data on student course taking, quasi-experimental方法和机器学习技术来研究大学生和大学管理如何应对劳动技能需求的变化。 具体来说，它调查了与每个大学专业的技能，主要跨职业技能的需求在整个空间和时间上如何不同，以及技能投资如何应对劳动力市场技能需求的变化。 先前的研究集中在技能掌握的需求方面。但是，该项目将通过探索大学课程的几个方面来探讨技能供应如何应对技能需求的变化，从而使这些供应回应成为可能。 准实验方法允许因果鉴定技能需求对人力资本投资的变化影响。该项目将在下部，上限和研究生级别探索差异反应。 这项研究的结果将为政策提供指导，以使技能投资与技能需求的变化保持一致，因此这样做将提供所需的技能，并导致经济增长更快。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来获得支持。

项目成果

Grads on the go: Measuring college‐specific labor markets for graduates

忙碌的毕业生：衡量大学毕业生的特定劳动力市场

• DOI: 10.1002/pam.22553
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
• 影响因子: 3.8
• 作者: Conzelmann, Johnathan G.;Hemelt, Steven W.;Hershbein, Brad J.;Martin, Shawn;Simon, Andrew;Stange, Kevin M.
• 通讯作者: Stange, Kevin M.

College majors and skills: Evidence from the universe of online job ads

大学专业和技能：来自在线招聘广告领域的证据

• DOI: 10.1016/j.labeco.2023.102429
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Labour Economics
• 影响因子: 2.4
• 作者: Hemelt, Steven W.;Hershbein, Brad;Martin, Shawn;Stange, Kevin M.
• 通讯作者: Stange, Kevin M.