The transition from school to work: Education and work experiences

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 21-32

  Yates, Julie A ^a  

^a BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS   (United States)

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1. See, for example, Report, by the Commission on the skills of the American Workforce, 1990.
2. See, for example, Robert H. Topel and Michael P. Ward, "Job Mobility and the Careers of Young Men," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1992, pp. 439-479;
3. Boyan Jovanovic, "Job Match-ing and the Theory of Turnover," Journal of Political Economy, May 1979, pp. 972-990;
4. William R. Johnson, "The Theory of Job Shopping," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, May 1978, pp. 261-278.
5. Jacob Alex Klerman and Lynn A. Karoly, "Young Men and the Transition to Stable Employment," Monthly Labor Review, August 1994, pp. 31-48;
6. Jonathan R. Veum and Andrea B. Weiss, "Education and the Work Histories of Young Adults," Monthly Labor Review, April 1994, pp. 11-20.
7. Rosella Gareecki and David B. Neumark, "Order from Chaos? The Effects of Early Labor Market Experiences on Adult Labor Market Outcomes," Industrial and Labor Relations Review, January 1998, pp. 299-322;
8. Audry Light, Kathleen McGarry, "Job Change Patterns and the Wages of Young Men," The Review of Economics and Statistics, May 1998, pp. 276-286.
9. If we do not restrict the sample to these birth cohorts, only individuals who had not exited school before 1978 would be included in the 1957 to 1960 sample. As a result, the sample including all cohorts would have a much higher percentage of college graduates and a lower percentage of high school dropouts.
10. An individual must be out of school for 12 consecutive months before their education status is determined. However, once that 12-month period has been reached, jobs and duration are measured retroac-lively from the beginning of the 12 months, that is, from the very first week they left school.
11. To account for individuals who initially overstate their educational attainment, the highest degrees are compared to questions, asked in 1998 and afterwards, of highest degree ever earned and the date these degrees were obtained. Approximately 100 individuals were reassigned to lower categories based on their answers to this question.
12. Approximately 3 percent of the sample was still attending school at their 35th birthday. However, much of this schooling appears to be a use of leisure time as compared to the pursuit of a degree. These individuals are characterized by intermittent school attendance, taking only a few credits, and never completing any additional degree.
13. All comparisons are statistically significant.
14. According to the Current Population Survey (CPS) at the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 64 percent of women with children under age 6 were in the civilian labor force in 2003, as were 72 percent of women with children under age 18.