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Author: Flynn, Robert J.
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1. Flynn, Robert J.
Effect of Schooling, Training, Work Experience, and Economic Sector on the Vocational Success of Low-IQ and Average-IQ Young Men
In: Frontiers of Knowledge in Mental Retardation: Fifth Congress of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Mental Deficiency (IASSMD). P. Mittler and J. De Jong, eds., Baltimore, MD: University Park Press, 1980
Cohort(s): Young Men
Publisher: University Park Press
Keyword(s): Duncan Index; Educational Attainment; I.Q.; Occupational Aspirations; Schooling; Vocational Training; Work Experience; Work Knowledge

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The effects of schooling, training, work experience, participation in the core versus the periphery industrial economic sector, and relevant control variables in terms of their impact on occupational status and annual earnings are examined. This study estimates multiple regression models for four race-IQ groups--low and average IQ for black and white men. The results show that the factors responsible for vocational success are alike for low IQ and average IQ groups within racial categories.
Bibliography Citation
Flynn, Robert J. "Effect of Schooling, Training, Work Experience, and Economic Sector on the Vocational Success of Low-IQ and Average-IQ Young Men" In: Frontiers of Knowledge in Mental Retardation: Fifth Congress of the International Association for the Scientific Study of Mental Deficiency (IASSMD). P. Mittler and J. De Jong, eds., Baltimore, MD: University Park Press, 1980
2. Flynn, Robert J.
Mental Ability, Schooling, and Early Career Achievement of Low-IQ and Average-IQ Young Men
American Journal of Mental Deficiency 84,5 (March 1980): 431-43.
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Cohort(s): Young Men
Publisher: American Association on Mental Retardation
Keyword(s): Career Patterns; I.Q.; Occupational Attainment; Schooling

This study constructs and estimates a 13-variable, 7-stage causal model of the career-attainment process of low-IQ and average-IQ young men. Multiple- regression analysis was used to estimate the model on the low-IQ groups within white and black racial categories separately. The findings showed gross differences to exist between low-IQ subjects on a number of variables. The regression results, however, indicated that the determinants of career attainment had similar effects among low-IQ and average-IQ subjects and that the status-attainment theory applied equally well to the two IQ groups.
Bibliography Citation
Flynn, Robert J. "Mental Ability, Schooling, and Early Career Achievement of Low-IQ and Average-IQ Young Men." American Journal of Mental Deficiency 84,5 (March 1980): 431-43.