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，但教育机构和学生对劳动力市场的这些变化反应缓慢。 该研究项目将使用有关技能需求变化和各专业大学入学人数以及专业内容的大型数据集来调查两个相互关联的问题：（i）哪些技能与每个大学专业相关以及技能需求如何随着时间和空间的变化而变化？(ii)高等教育课程设置和学生课程学习如何应对技能需求的变化？这项研究将基于一段时间内所有职位发布的数据，以及一个州所有课程（及其内容）的数据。 研究结果可以帮助机构通过快速改变课程内容来应对技能需求，并帮助教育政策制定者更好地规划。 结果也将有助于指导学生不仅在他们的专业选择，但也是他们选择在他们所选择的专业获得的课程和技能。 通过为在快速变化的技术工作场所中调整技能需求和技能培训的政策提供投入，本研究将帮助美国教育机构提供经济所需的技能，从而导致经济快速增长和改善美国人的福祉。本项目将使用来自燃烧玻璃项目和特拉华州成本项目的合并数据，该项目具有部门级的学分面板数据，课程和教师以及学生课程的个人水平数据，准实验方法和机器学习技术，以调查大学生和大学管理部门如何应对劳动技能需求的变化。 具体来说，它调查了哪些技能与每个大学专业相关，跨专业技能需求如何在空间和时间上有所不同，以及技能投资如何应对劳动力市场技能需求的变化。 以前的研究集中在技能获取的需求方面;然而，本项目将探讨技能供应（由大学提供者和学生）如何应对技能需求的变化，探索大学课程的几个方面，使这些供应反应成为可能。 准实验的方法允许因果关系识别的技能需求的变化对人力资本投资的影响。该项目将探讨在较低的司，较高的司和研究生水平的差异反应。 这项研究的结果将为政策提供指导，使技能投资与技能需求的变化保持一致，从而提供所需的技能，并导致更快的经济增长。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.