Collaborative Research: SBP: Socioeconomic Mobility of Young Adults Without College Degrees: Understanding Transition Between Jobs

合作研究：SBP：没有大学学位的年轻人的社会经济流动性：了解工作之间的过渡

• 批准号: 2420152
• 负责人: Le Zhou
• 金额: $ 36.34万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M University
• 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: 2023-10-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2420152&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; SBP; Socioeconomic; Mobility

A high-quality job paves the way for upward socioeconomic mobility for a young adult by providing more income and career progression opportunities. Unfortunately, many young adults without postsecondary degrees spin their wheels between low-wage jobs. This project examines factors less reliant on formal education that may facilitate or counteract changes in job quality among young adults without postsecondary degrees. This project provides insights to workers about personal actions they can take while searching for and adjusting to new jobs to improve job quality. For employers and managers, this project clarifies how job tasks and the work environment can facilitate worker development and reduce turnover costs. Findings further inform the design of programs aiming to support young workers moving into better-quality jobs, including programs serving youth from low-income families. This project advances knowledge by developing and testing models that explain how individual factors (e.g., socioeconomic mobility beliefs), family background (e.g., social class origin), and work and nonwork environmental factors (e.g., workplace practices and government programs) drive changes in job quality. The project team is collaborating with the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development and the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development to collect data and analyze administrative records. The project team is surveying workers aged 18-29 without postsecondary degrees and unemployed at the beginning of the study. Additional rounds of surveys are being fielded as participants search for and adjust to new job(s) over the course of one year. Survey responses are being paired with administrative records. This project extends understanding of the role of behavioral processes during job transitions in intra-generational socioeconomic mobility. This project also contributes to knowledge about the interplay between individual agency and contextual factors shaped by family, work organizations, and government agencies during transitions into early adulthood.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.

高质量的工作通过提供更多的收入和职业发展机会，为年轻人的社会经济向上流动铺平了道路。不幸的是，许多没有大专学历的年轻人在低薪工作之间转来转去。该项目审查了对正规教育依赖程度较低的因素，这些因素可能促进或抵消没有中学后学位的年轻人的工作质量变化。该项目为员工提供了关于他们在寻找和适应新工作时可以采取的个人行动的见解，以提高工作质量。对于雇主和管理者来说，这个项目阐明了工作任务和工作环境如何促进工人的发展和降低流动成本。调查结果进一步为旨在支持年轻工人进入更高质量工作的方案的设计提供了信息，包括为低收入家庭的年轻人服务的方案。该项目通过开发和测试解释个体因素（例如，社会经济流动性信念），家庭背景（例如，社会阶层出身），以及工作和非工作环境因素（例如，工作场所的做法和政府的计划）推动工作质量的变化。该项目小组正在与明尼苏达州就业和经济发展部以及新泽西州劳工和劳动力发展部合作，收集数据并分析行政记录。项目小组正在调查18-29岁没有中学后学位和在研究开始时失业的工人。随着参与者在一年内寻找和适应新工作，正在进行更多轮的调查。正在将调查答复与行政记录配对。该项目扩展了对行为过程在代际社会经济流动性中的工作转变过程中的作用的理解。该项目还有助于了解个人机构和家庭，工作组织和政府机构在过渡到成年早期的背景因素之间的相互作用。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。