RAPID:Investigating the Impact of COVID-19 on the Future of the U.S. STEM Workforce

这一快速项目解决了在大流行期间保持STEM劳动力的复原力的需要。研究人员的目标是评估在新冠肺炎疫情期间，哪些行业的哪些STEM工作在短期内或多或少能够远程工作。该项目还将调查STEM职业和工资在公司内的分布，并比较各行业，以深入了解新冠肺炎将在工作场所层面产生多大的颠覆性影响。研究团队将使用大规模人口数据、关联的雇员-雇主数据以及企业编制和公司微观数据来模拟2008年至2009年的大衰退和随后的复苏，并估计新冠肺炎衰退对STEM工人和STEM劳动力市场可能产生的影响。这项研究将为政策制定者提供信息和估计，这些信息和估计可以制定政策，以改善新冠肺炎疫情对STEM劳动力的影响。研究目标是(1)衡量在新冠肺炎疫情期间，有多少STEM劳动力能够在不同的职业和行业继续工作，(2)模拟新冠肺炎工作中断和经济衰退对STEM工人和STEM劳动力市场可能产生的影响，以及(3)为能够减轻疫情对STEM工人影响的政策提供依据。研究小组将合并职业信息网(O*NET)和美国社区调查(ACS)的数据，以评估哪些STEM工人有可能在新冠肺炎疫情期间继续工作，以及在多大程度上能够继续工作。为了估计新冠肺炎衰退和复苏对STEM工人的可能影响，该团队将构建一个关于工人和公司的纵向数据集，并用可以支持远程工作的职业来扩大数据。研究人员将利用2008年至2009年大衰退和随后的复苏的经验来评估新冠肺炎对更广泛的经济衰退的影响，以记录减轻或加剧衰退对STEM就业影响的因素。研究结果可以帮助指导支持远程工作和工作场所结构的其他变化的政策，以增强未来劳动力的弹性。该项目是为了应对新冠肺炎大流行。该奖项由EHR核心研究计划(ECR)的ECR：STEM教育研究竞赛中的能力建设支持，该计划资助专注于STEM学习和学习环境、扩大STEM领域的参与和STEM专业劳动力发展的基础研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This RAPID project addresses the need to maintain resilience in the STEM workforce during a pandemic. The researchers aim to assess which STEM jobs in which industries are more or less able to telework in the near term during the COVID-19 pandemic. The project also will examine the distribution of STEM occupations and wages within firms and compare across industries to gain insight into how disruptive COVID-19 will be at the workplace level. The research team will use large-scale population data, linked employee-employer data, and business establishment and firm microdata to model the 2008-2009 Great Recession and subsequent recovery and estimate the likely effects of COVID-19 recession on STEM workers and the STEM labor market. The research will provide policymakers with information and estimates that can shape policies to ameliorate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the STEM workforce. The research goals are to (1) measure how much of the STEM workforce is able to continue work in which occupations and industries during the COVID-19 pandemic, (2) model the likely effect of the COVID-19 work disruption and economic recession on STEM workers and the STEM labor market, and (3) inform policies that can ameliorate the effects of pandemics on STEM workers. The research team will merge Occupation Information Network (O*NET) and American Community Survey (ACS) data to assess which STEM workers are potentially able to continue work during the COVID-19 pandemic and to what extent. To estimate the likely effects of COVID-19 recession and recovery on STEM workers, the team will construct a longitudinal dataset of workers and firms and augment the data with occupations that can support telework. The researchers will use the experience of the 2008-2009 Great Recession and subsequent recovery to evaluate the wider economic recession effects of COVID-19 to document factors that mitigate or exacerbate effects of recession on STEM employment. The research results can help guide policies that support telework and other changes in the structure of work and workplaces to enhance future workforce resilience. The project responds to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is supported by the ECR: Building Capacity in STEM Education Research competition of the EHR Core Research Program (ECR) that funds fundamental research focused on STEM learning sand learning environments, broadening participation in STEM fields, and STEM professional workforce development.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.