Geographies of Occupational Attainment

职业成就的地域

• 批准号: 0110497
• 负责人: James Harrington
• 金额: $ 13万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-01 至 2004-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0110497&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Geographies; Occupational; Attainment

How a worker comes to claim a particular occupation in a particular place, or how a place comes to contain a cadre of workers with a particular occupation, are vitally important economic and social questions. This research takes an institutional approach to the individual's gaining and using occupation-specific skills and to the local availability of occupation-specific labor. The objective of the research project is to compare the sources (by type and location) of computer programmers' training across regions, industrial sectors, and personal characteristics. The research will first use secondary data such as censuses to investigate the relationships between rates of occupational attainment and various institutional factors for all Metropolitan Statistical Areas in the United States. Case studies of five mid-sized metropolitan areas with a high proportion of programmers will be made via phone and in-person interviews with key employers and institutional leaders. The key questions to be investigated are: sex and race; current employment arrangement and tenure; approximate age and location at which the individual gained original training as a programmer; motivations for occupational and locational choices; earlier careers and parents' occupations; and incidence and sponsorship of further training. The information from both types of interviews will be used to relate local characteristics of labor-force size, employer size, employment practices, and growth rates to the locations and ways in which programmers gained and maintained their skills. For anyone in the labor force, one's occupation and one's location largely determine one's employment outcomes. For the region, the local availability of trained workers is key to local economic well-being. This project provides an understanding of the general process between location and occupational attainment. In addition, the proposed project selects one particular occupation, computer programmer, that has been the object of much interest and debate. The contribution of the proposed research lies in its combination of: recognition of institutional influences on individual behavior and regional outcomes; attention to training and migration decisions; attention to the paths of women and minorities within an occupation dominated by white men; and secondary data for all metropolitan regions as well as exploratory, interview data in five specific regions.

工人如何在特定地方声称特定职业，或者在一个地方如何包含具有特定职业的工人的干部是至关重要的经济和社会问题。 这项研究采取了一种机构的方法来实现个人的获得和使用特定于职业的技能以及特定职业的当地可用性。 研究项目的目的是比较跨地区，工业领域和个人特征的计算机程序员培训的来源（按类型和位置）进行比较。 该研究将首先使用二级数据，例如人口普查，以研究美国所有大都市统计领域的职业达到率与各种制度因素之间的关系。 将通过电话和主要雇主和机构领导人的面对面访谈进行五个具有很高比例程序员的中型大都市地区的案例研究。 要调查的关键问题是：性与种族；当前的就业安排和任期；大约年龄和位置，个人获得了作为程序员的原始培训；职业和位置选择的动机； 较早的职业和父母的职业； 以及进一步培训的发病率和赞助。 两种访谈的信息都将用于将劳动力规模，雇主规模，就业实践和增长率的本地特征与程序员获得和维持其技能的位置以及方式联系起来。对于劳动力中的任何人，一个人的职业和一个人的位置在很大程度上决定了一个人的就业成果。 对于该地区，训练有素的工人的当地可用性是当地经济福祉的关键。 该项目提供了对位置和职业成就之间的一般过程的理解。 此外，拟议的项目选择了一个特定的职业计算机程序员，这是引起人们兴趣和辩论的对象。 拟议的研究的贡献在于它的结合：认识机构对个人行为和区域结果的影响；注意培训和移民决策；注意以白人为主的职业中妇女和少数民族的道路；以及所有大都市地区的次要数据以及探索性的访谈数据。