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1. Bae, Seong-O
Women's Human Capital Investment and Its Returns in the United States: Findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79
Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2002. DAI-A 63/11, p. 3814, May 2003
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Educational Returns; Gender Differences; Human Capital; Human Capital Theory; Job Satisfaction; Job Tenure; Job Training; Training; Training, Employee; Women's Studies

During the last few decades, there have been numerous changes in women's human capital investment and labor force participation in the United States. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79, this study addressed how demographic variables affect women's human capital investment, and in turn how women's human capital investment affects their economic and non-monetary returns. This study also examined the patterns of women's human capital investment and its effects on economic and non-monetary returns. Results of the analyses showed that female students had higher grade point averages (GPA), but lower Armed Forces Qualification Tests (AFQT) scores than male students. The results indicated that women invested in post-secondary education as much as men. Marriage and children had negative effects on women's post-secondary education investment. With respect to training, the results demonstrated that women are less likely to be trained than men. Both marriage and children had significant negative effects on women's training investment early in a career. However, these effects attenuated with progression toward the later career. This study found a significant positive relationship between education and training investment and earnings. This positive effect of human capital investment on earnings was found to be stronger later in a career. The results of this study provided evidence that a gender gap in earnings persisted. Higher education provided higher employability. Also found in this study is the fact that women, regardless of education investment, are less likely to be employed than men. Training was found to be positively associated with employability later in a career. Education investment was found to be positively associated with job satisfaction. Training investment was positively related to job satisfaction early in a career. There was no evidence found concerning gender difference in effects of education investment on job satisfaction. Education investment had a negative effect on tenure early in a career, but education investment showed a positive effect on tenure later in a career. Women had less tenure than men. Married people were found to have longer tenure, while the children factor was associated with less tenure. Training was positively related with tenure. Higher education and training investment were found to provide employees with a higher chance to promote. The results of this study also suggested that despite education investment, women are less likely to be promoted than men.
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Bae, Seong-O. Women's Human Capital Investment and Its Returns in the United States: Findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 79. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Minnesota, 2002. DAI-A 63/11, p. 3814, May 2003.