RAPID:Investigating the Impact of COVID-19 on the Future of the U.S. STEM Workforce

该RAPID项目解决了在大流行期间保持STEM劳动力复原力的需求。研究人员旨在评估在COVID-19大流行期间，哪些STEM行业的哪些工作或多或少能够在短期内远程办公。该项目还将检查企业内部STEM职业和工资的分布，并进行跨行业比较，以深入了解COVID-19在工作场所层面的破坏性。研究小组将使用大规模人口数据、关联的雇员-雇主数据、企业建立和企业微观数据来模拟2008-2009年大衰退及随后的复苏，并估计2019冠状病毒病衰退对STEM工人和STEM劳动力市场的可能影响。这项研究将为政策制定者提供信息和估计，以制定政策，改善COVID-19大流行对STEM劳动力的影响。研究目标是(1)衡量在COVID-19大流行期间有多少STEM劳动力能够继续在哪些职业和行业工作，(2)模拟COVID-19工作中断和经济衰退对STEM工人和STEM劳动力市场的可能影响，以及(3)为可以改善流行病对STEM工人影响的政策提供信息。研究小组将合并职业信息网络（O*NET）和美国社区调查（ACS）的数据，以评估哪些STEM工作者有可能在COVID-19大流行期间继续工作，以及在多大程度上继续工作。为了估计2019冠状病毒病的衰退和复苏对STEM工人的可能影响，该团队将构建一个工人和公司的纵向数据集，并添加可以支持远程办公的职业。研究人员将利用2008-2009年大衰退和随后的复苏的经验来评估COVID-19更广泛的经济衰退影响，以记录减轻或加剧经济衰退对STEM就业影响的因素。研究结果可以帮助指导支持远程办公和其他工作和工作场所结构变化的政策，以增强未来的劳动力弹性。该项目应对2019冠状病毒病大流行。它得到了ECR的支持：EHR核心研究计划（ECR）的STEM教育研究能力建设竞赛，该竞赛资助了专注于STEM学习和学习环境的基础研究，扩大了STEM领域的参与，以及STEM专业劳动力的发展。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This RAPID project addresses the need to maintain resilience in the STEM workforce during a pandemic. The researchers aim to assess which STEM jobs in which industries are more or less able to telework in the near term during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project also will examine the distribution of STEM occupations and wages within firms and compare across industries to gain insight into how disruptive COVID-19 will be at the workplace level. The research team will use large-scale population data, linked employee-employer data, and business establishment and firm microdata to model the 2008-2009 Great Recession and subsequent recovery and estimate the likely effects of COVID-19 recession on STEM workers and the STEM labor market. The research will provide policymakers with information and estimates that can shape policies to ameliorate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the STEM workforce. The research goals are to (1) measure how much of the STEM workforce is able to continue work in which occupations and industries during the COVID-19 pandemic, (2) model the likely effect of the COVID-19 work disruption and economic recession on STEM workers and the STEM labor market, and (3) inform policies that can ameliorate the effects of pandemics on STEM workers. The research team will merge Occupation Information Network (O*NET) and American Community Survey (ACS) data to assess which STEM workers are potentially able to continue work during the COVID-19 pandemic and to what extent. To estimate the likely effects of COVID-19 recession and recovery on STEM workers, the team will construct a longitudinal dataset of workers and firms and augment the data with occupations that can support telework. The researchers will use the experience of the 2008-2009 Great Recession and subsequent recovery to evaluate the wider economic recession effects of COVID-19 to document factors that mitigate or exacerbate effects of recession on STEM employment. The research results can help guide policies that support telework and other changes in the structure of work and workplaces to enhance future workforce resilience. The project responds to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is supported by the ECR: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research competition of the EHR Core Research Program (ECR) that funds fundamental research focused on STEM learning sand learning environments, broadening participation in STEM fields, and STEM professional workforce development.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.