Integrating Young Workers in a Changing Labor Market: Matching Educational Qualifications and Employment Requirements

这是一项针对不断变化的劳动力市场中的年轻工人的研究，对现有数据进行定量分析，以开发一种新的定性访谈研究工具。 更广泛的研究的目的是检查最近一段时间的广泛经济变化，以提高对劳动力市场的科学理解-作为人力资本和职业结构之间的相互关系系统-如何将人们分配到职位并为人们创造职位。 分析还依赖于美国和德国之间的跨国比较，建立在比较工作作为一种手段，在体制结构层面引入变化的新的兴趣。 定量分析将利用两个主要的纵向数据集：高中及以上和德国社会经济小组。 目前的工作以一种独特的方式结合了定量和定性方法，采用了一种创新的方法，将定量调查结果直接纳入开放式定性访谈。 虽然量化数据可以开始回答体制机制如何将人与职位联系起来的问题，但通过对劳动力融合过程中的主要机构行为者进行深入访谈，可以获得更全面的了解，包括：中学和中学后教育机构的管理人员和顾问，人事经理，大公司的人力资源经理，小公司的经理和所有者，和工作人员在求职和安置机构。 这项工作将发展进行这种研究所需的工具和方法。

This is a study of young workers in changing labor markets, conducting quantitative analysis of existing data to develop a new research instrument for qualitative interviews. The objective of the broader research is to examine the recent period of widespread economic change to improve scientific understanding of how labor markets -- as systems of reciprocal relations between human capital and occupational structure -- allocate people to positions and create positions for people. The analysis also relies on a cross-national comparison between the United States and Germany, building on a renewed interest in comparative work as a means to introduce variation at the level of institutional structures. The quantitative analysis will draw on two major longitudinal data sets: High School and Beyond and the German Socio-Economic Panel. The immediate work combines quantitative and qualitative methods in a unique manner, following an innovative approach to directly integrate the quantitative findings in open-ended qualitative interviews. Although quantitative data can begin to answer questions of how institutional mechanisms link people and positions, a fuller understanding can come through in-depth interviews with key institutional actors in labor force integration processes, including: administrators and counselors at secondary and postsecondary educational institutions, personnel managers, human resource managers from large firms, managers and owners of small firms, and staff at job search and placement agencies. This work will develop the instruments and methodology required to carry out such research.