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Author: Ay, Unal
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1. Ay, Unal
Labor Force Attachment of American Youth
Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1985
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Employment, Youth; Gender Differences; Labor Force Participation; Racial Differences; Work Attitudes

The purpose of this study was to develop a model measuring the labor force attachment of American youth. Data were obtained from the National Longitudinal Surveys, Labor Market Experience of Youth (NLS) in which youth 14 to 21 years old were first interviewed in 1979. Two questions included in this study were: (1) Can acceptable models of labor force attachment of American youth be created from observed measures of youth commitment to work, willingness to engage in paid employment, and work experience? (2) Are models of labor force attachment of American youth equally appropriate for sex, race, and age groups? Two and three latent variable models of youth labor force attachment were developed through confirmatory factor analysis of observed measures. Results of the analysis showed that both models fit the data fairly well, but measures of fit were higher in the three latent variable model, indicating that it was a slightly better model than the two latent variable model. Measures of fit of the model to the data across the sex-race-age groups were about the same; that is, while some observed variables highly correlated with the same latent variable in all groups, there we some that were weakly correlated in all groups. The model with three latent variables did not fit the category by race, because the T matrix was not positive definite for Whites.
Bibliography Citation
Ay, Unal. Labor Force Attachment of American Youth. Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1985.
2. Passmore, David L.
Ay, Unal
Geer, Edward Marshall
Reliability of the Knowledge of the World of Work Test
Journal of Studies in Technical Careers 4,4 (Fall 1982): 309-311.
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Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keyword(s): Disadvantaged, Economically; Earnings; Employment; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Job Satisfaction; Teenagers; Tests and Testing; World of Work Test

Eric Document: EJ266719

A recent study of the need for teaching youth about the labor market concluded that underprivileged youth lack information common to their more privileged counterparts. This brief note looks carefully at the statistics employed by that study.

Bibliography Citation
Passmore, David L., Unal Ay and Edward Marshall Geer. "Reliability of the Knowledge of the World of Work Test." Journal of Studies in Technical Careers 4,4 (Fall 1982): 309-311.
3. Passmore, David L.
Ay, Unal
Rockel, Sheryl
Wade, Barbara
Employment Conditions of Youths Whose Use of English is Limited
Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education 5 (Fall 1982): 3-8
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: National Association of Vocational Education Special Needs Personnel
Keyword(s): Work Knowledge; World of Work Test

Limited English use among 16 through 21-year olds in l979 was associated with lower rates of employment, pay, and job status, and with higher rates of unemployment than for the youth population in general.
Bibliography Citation
Passmore, David L., Unal Ay, Sheryl Rockel and Barbara Wade. "Employment Conditions of Youths Whose Use of English is Limited." Journal for Vocational Special Needs Education 5 (Fall 1982): 3-8.
4. Passmore, David L.
Ay, Unal
Rockel, Sheryl
Wade, Barbara
Health and Youth Employment
Applied Economics 15,6 (December 1983): 715-729.
Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00036848300000061
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Chapman & Hall
Keyword(s): Duncan Index; Earnings; Employment; Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; Health Factors; High School Completion/Graduates; Hispanics; Language Problems; Marital Status; Schooling

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

The employment of 6.4 percent of United States teenagers and young adults is limited by their health. These young people are less likely to have jobs than youths without health problems. Also, they work fewer hours per week than the youth average, although they earn as much per hour as youth without health limitations. Differences in satisfaction and prestige which youths enjoy from their jobs are not related to the presence of health conditions. Youths who reported health conditions lasting their entire lives are more likely to have jobs than young people recently acquiring their conditions. These relationships are derived from analyses of responses of 11,412 civilian noninstitutionalized youths to the l979 NLSY.
Bibliography Citation
Passmore, David L., Unal Ay, Sheryl Rockel and Barbara Wade. "Health and Youth Employment." Applied Economics 15,6 (December 1983): 715-729.