Speech Patterns and Racial Labor Market Inequality

言语模式和种族劳动力市场不平等

基本信息

批准号：
8207960
负责人：
JEFFREY T GROGGER
金额：
$ 16.99万
依托单位：
NATIONAL OPINION RESEARCH CENTER
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2011
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2011-01-01 至 2013-12-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Linguists have documented many differences between Standard American English (SAE) and African American English (AAE), a dialect spoken by many African Americans. Social psychologists have shown that AAE speech patterns influence listeners' attitudes toward the speaker. Sociologists have shown that landlords are less likely to show apartments to prospective renters whose speech exhibits distinctively African American features. Economists, however, have yet to analyze the link between speech and racial labor market inequality, despite ample theoretical reasons to expect one. A major barrier is a lack of data connecting speech to labor market behavior. This application seeks to remedy that problem. Its goals are to transcribe and code audio speech samples taken from respondents to the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97); to add qualitative and quantitative measures of those audio samples to NLSY97 public use files; to analyze those data; and to use them to test alternative explanations of racial labor market inequality. Labor market inequality is one dimension of the broader problem of racial inequality, which manifests itself in the form of racial differences in education, health, and child well-being, among others. Furthermore, differences in speech patterns have an important developmental component, since many aspects of speech are largely determined by the time the speaker reaches puberty. The speech data which we propose to produce would be the first quantitative measures of speech patterns to be available with any major social science data set. The analyses we propose to conduct would provide much deeper insights into the links between speech, race, and the labor market than those from the small sample that was available for our preliminary work. By adding public-use speech measures to the NLSY97, which includes measures of respondent education, health, and other measures of socioeconomic well-being, the project will enable future researchers to analyze the role that speech plays across numerous dimensions of racial inequality. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Recent research suggests that racial differences in speech may mediate racial labor market inequality. Labor market inequality is one dimension of the broader problem of racial inequality, which manifests itself in the form of racial differences in education, health, and child well-being, among others. The proposed project will add quantitative and qualitative measures of speech to a large, nationally representative survey of young adults, which in turn will permit researchers to analyze the links between speech and racial inequality not only in the labor market, but also in health and numerous other aspects of socioeconomic well-being.

描述（由申请人提供）：语言学家已经记录了标准的美国英语（SAE）和非裔美国人英语（AAE）之间的许多差异，这是许多非裔美国人所说的方言。社会心理学家表明，AAE语音模式会影响听众对演讲者的态度。社会学家表明，房东不太可能向潜在的租户展示公寓，他们的演讲表现出独特的非裔美国人特征。然而，尽管有充分的理论理由期望，经济学家尚未分析言语与种族劳动力市场不平等之间的联系。主要的障碍是缺乏将语音与劳动力市场行为联系起来的数据。该应用程序旨在解决这个问题。它的目标是将受访者从受访者抄录和代码音频演讲样本转录到1997年的《青年纵向调查》（NLSY97）的队列中；将这些音频样本的定性和定量度量添加到NLSY97公共用途文件中；分析这些数据；并使用它们来测试种族劳动力市场不平等的替代解释。劳动力市场不平等是种族不平等问题的更广泛问题的一个维度，该问题以教育，健康和儿童福祉等种族差异的形式表现出来。此外，语音模式的差异具有重要的发展组成部分，因为言语的许多方面在很大程度上取决于说话者到达青春期的时间。我们建议生产的语音数据将是任何主要的社会科学数据集可用的语音模式的第一个定量度量。我们建议进行的分析将提供对语音，种族和劳动力市场之间的联系的更深入的见解，而不是从小样本中提供的初步工作。通过向NLSY97添加公共用途的语音措施，其中包括受访者教育，健康和其他社会经济福祉措施的措施，该项目将使未来的研究人员能够分析跨种族不平等的众多维度扮演语音的作用。公共卫生相关性：最近的研究表明，言语的种族差异可能介导种族劳动力市场的不平等。劳动力市场不平等是种族不平等问题的更广泛问题的一个维度，该问题以教育，健康和儿童福祉等种族差异的形式表现出来。拟议的项目将为年轻人的大型全国代表性调查增加定量和定性的语音衡量标准，这反过来又使研究人员不仅在劳动力市场和社会经济健康方面的健康和许多其他方面都可以分析言语与种族不平等之间的联系。