The Transitions of Young Workers in the UK Labour Market: Consequences for Careers, Earnings, Health and Wellbeing.

英国劳动力市场年轻工人的转变：对职业、收入、健康和福祉的影响。

• 批准号: ES/W009536/1
• 负责人: Jason Heyes
• 金额: $ 78.09万
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FW009536%2F1
• 关键词: Transitions; Young; Workers; UK; Labour

This project will investigate the ability of younger workers living in the UK to make successful transitions in the labour market and the barriers that might prevent them from making progress in their careers. The motivating questions for the research are 'how do the labour market transitions of younger workers affect their employment prospects, physical health and mental wellbeing at subsequent stages of their life course?' and 'how can the likelihood of positive, empowering transitions for younger workers be increased?'. The pertinence of these questions has recently been further underscored by the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on young workers, although the difficulties that many young workers face in progressing in the labour market are long-standing. The concept of 'transitions', which has been influential in European labour market debates (Schmid, 2008; Salais et al., 2011), refers to work-related movements that workers might make during their life course (e.g. changing jobs, retiring). Research relating to younger workers has tended to focus on two types of transition: firstly, initial transitions from education into the labour market; and secondly, the ability of young people who are not in employment, education or training (NEET) to transition into work. Although these transitions are important to our project, its main focus will be on subsequent (and under-researched) transitions made by younger workers, including transitions between jobs, within jobs, and between lower quality and higher quality jobs. The project will also examine the consequences of early labour market experiences for workers' careers, earnings and physical and mental health during their life course, barriers and enablers of employment progression (e.g. to better jobs), and the consequences of young workers' transitions for the employment of other family members. These are issues that have received little attention to date. The project will examine differences in the ability of younger workers to progress within the labour market and within their careers, comparing people who differ in respect of gender, race, ethnicity and disability and thereby enhancing understanding of diversity in labour market experiences and outcomes. In order to analyse the short and long-term consequences of positive (e.g. to a better job) and negative (e.g. from employment to unemployment) transitions we will draw on longitudinal datasets that cover substantial timespans. The project will also connect young workers' experiences to where they live in the UK through survey data and through a detailed qualitative investigation of young workers' lived experiences of transitions in two city-regions in England - Greater Manchester and Sheffield City Region. In addition to making substantial contributions to academic knowledge and debates relating to younger workers, career progression and work-related health and wellbeing, the project will involve regular knowledge exchanges with national and local policymakers, practitioner bodies and other stakeholders and will lead to the co-production of resources to address barriers to progression and support young workers' transitions.

该项目将调查居住在英国的年轻工人在劳动力市场中取得成功过渡的能力，以及可能阻止他们在职业生涯中取得进步的障碍。这项研究的激励性问题是“年轻工人的劳动力市场过渡如何影响他们的就业前景，身体健康和精神福祉，在其后续阶段？”和“如何增加积极，赋予年轻工人过渡的可能性？”。这些问题的相关性最近因199日大流行对年轻工人的负面影响而进一步强调，尽管许多年轻工人在劳动力市场上遇到的困难是长期的。 “过渡”的概念在欧洲劳动力市场辩论中具有影响力（Schmid，2008; Salais等，2011）是指工人在人生过程中可能做出的与工作有关的运动（例如，换工作，退休）。与年轻工人有关的研究倾向于专注于两种过渡：首先，从教育到劳动力市场的初步过渡；其次，没有就业，教育或培训（NEET）过渡到工作的年轻人的能力。尽管这些过渡对我们的项目很重要，但其主要重点将放在年轻工人的随后（和研究不足）的过渡上，包括工作，工作中以及质量较低和质量更高的工作之间的过渡。该项目还将研究早期劳动力市场经验对工人的职业，收入以及身心健康的后果，在他们的人生过程中，障碍和就业发展的障碍（例如，更好的工作）以及年轻工人过渡到其他家庭成员的过渡的后果。这些问题迄今为止很少关注。该项目将研究年轻工人在劳动力市场和职业生涯中进步的能力的差异，比较在性别，种族，种族和残疾方面不同的人，从而增强了对劳动力市场经历和成果多样性的理解。为了分析积极（例如更好的工作）和负面的短期和长期后果（例如，从就业到失业率）的过渡，我们将利用涵盖大量时间的纵向数据集。该项目还将通过调查数据将年轻工人的经验与他们在英国居住的地方联系起来，并通过对英格兰两个城市地区的年轻工人的过渡经验进行详细的定性调查 - 大曼彻斯特和谢菲尔德市地区。除了对与年轻工人有关的学术知识和辩论做出重大贡献，职业发展以及与工作相关的健康和福祉外，该项目还将涉及与国家和地方决策者，从业人员机构和其他利益相关者的定期知识交流，并将导致资源共同生产以解决对进步和年轻工人过渡的障碍。