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.

高质量的工作为年轻人提供了更多的收入和职业发展机会，为年轻人的社会经济流动铺平了道路。不幸的是，许多没有中学后学位的年轻人在低薪工作之间旋转了车轮。该项目研究的因素较少依赖正规教育，这可能会促进或抵消不中学学位的年轻人的工作质量变化。该项目为工人提供有关他们在搜索并适应新工作以提高工作质量时可以采取的个人行动的见解。对于雇主和经理，该项目阐明了工作任务和工作环境如何促进工人发展并降低离职成本。调查结果进一步为旨在支持年轻工人从事更好质量工作的计划的设计提供了信息，包括为低收入家庭的青年提供服务的计划。该项目通过开发和测试模型来推动知识，以解释个人因素（例如社会经济流动性信念），家庭背景（例如社会阶层起源）以及工作和非工作环境因素（例如，工作场所实践和政府计划）如何推动工作质量变化。项目团队正在与明尼苏达州就业和经济发展部以及新泽西州劳工与劳动力发展部合作，以收集数据并分析行政记录。该项目团队正在对18-29岁的工人进行调查，但在研究开始时，未经专上学位而失业。随着参与者在一年的时间内搜索并适应新工作，还将进行其他调查。调查响应与行政记录配对。该项目扩展了对行为过程中的行为过程中的作用的理解。该项目还有助于了解个人代理机构与背景因素之间在转变为成年期间由家庭，工作组织和政府机构塑造的上下文因素之间的相互作用。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估来获得支持的。