The Longer-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Precarious Workers

COVID-19 对不稳定工人的长期影响

• 批准号: 2241780
• 负责人: Alexandrea Ravenelle
• 金额: $ 30.8万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-08-01 至 2026-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2241780&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Longer; Term; Impact; COVID; 19

During the COVID-19 Pandemic, economic stimulus programs helped some precarious workers – those engaged in temporary, contract-based work, and involuntary part-time work – to reduce debt, pursue additional education, or change careers. This project examines the longer-term impact of the coronavirus pandemic, and resulting short-lived financial supports, on gig-based and precarious workers as the coronavirus becomes endemic. The project examines how workers in precarious jobs, which are often public facing, perceive the potential ongoing risks of the virus and the “sweet spot” of timing regarding career changes or efforts to establish alternative income sources. Findings from the project inform decision-making at several levels, including workplace protections, worker classification, changes to unemployment insurance programs, and financial supports during a crisis.This project is the fourth stage of a mixed methods panel study utilizing interviews and surveys conducted with nearly 200 gig-based and precarious workers. Participants include gig workers who find work via online platforms, freelance workers in creative fields, and fast food and retail workers. While the earlier data collection phases coincided with the start of the pandemic, the second wave, and the end of unemployment assistance, this phase coincides with the coronavirus being deemed endemic and the end of the covid-19 emergency declaration. Findings from the project inform sociological theories regarding precarious work, job mobility, and the role of governmental support in an epidemiological natural disaster. Findings also inform theories regarding differential access to the U.S. employment social safety net and the impact of high levels of governmental financial support during a crisis.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.

在Covid-19的大流行期间，经济刺激计划帮助一些不稳定的工人 - 从事临时，基于合同的工作和非自愿兼职工作的工人，以减少债务，购买额外的教育或改变职业。该项目考试冠状病毒大流行的长期影响，以及随着冠状病毒的基于演出和不稳定的工人的长期影响，并带来了短期的财政支持。该项目考试是如何从事公众面临的不稳定工作的工人如何看待该病毒的潜在风险以及定时的“最佳位置”，这些时机有关职业变化或建立替代收入来源的努力。该项目的调查结果为决策提供了多个层面的依据，包括工作场所保护，工人分类，对失业保险计划的变化以及危机期间的财务支持。这个项目是使用访谈和近200名基于演出的工作的调查的混合方法小组研究的第四阶段。参与者包括通过在线平台，创意领域的自由职业者以及快餐和零售工人找到工作的工作人员。虽然早期的数据收集阶段与大流行，第二波和失业援助的终结相吻合，但该阶段与冠状病毒被认为是内在的冠状病毒和COVID-19紧急宣言的结束相吻合。该项目的发现为社会学理论提供了有关不稳定的工作，工作流动性以及政府支持在流行病学自然灾害中的作用的信息。调查结果还提供了有关与美国员工社会安全网的差异访问以及在危机期间高水平政府财政支持的影响的信息。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准来评估被认为是宝贵的支持。