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Author: Lim, Nelson
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1. Lim, Nelson
Young Men's Transition to the Adult Work Role
Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Education; Education Indicators; Ethnic Differences; Event History; Hispanic Youth; Incarceration/Jail; Racial Differences; Transition, School to Work

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The study has two purposes. The first purpose is to develop a sensible way to operationalize the concept of transition to adult work role, especially for prospective longitudinal studies. The second is to explore the racial differences in likelihood of making this transition. The study uses the 1979-1993 panels of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. The results from the discrete event history analyses show that, as one might expect, education has a positive effect, while being in school and ever-been-in-jail have negative effects on the probability of making the transition in a given year. The disparity in life chances between educated and uneducated African-American is much greater than between their non-Hispanic white counterparts. The "transition age" starts around age 20 and end around age 25 for both races. The estimated effects of contextual factors are mixed. Yet, the results show that African-Americans are more vulnerable to the overall "health" of the local economy than their non-Hispanic white counterparts.
Bibliography Citation
Lim, Nelson. "Young Men's Transition to the Adult Work Role." Presented: Washington, DC, Population Association of America Meetings, March 1997.
2. Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincaid
Kalmijn, Matthijs
Lim, Nelson
Men's Career Development and Marriage Timing During a Period of Rising Inequality
Working Paper, University of California - Los Angeles and Utrecht University, October 1996
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Author
Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Earnings; Education Indicators; Event History; Job Analysis; Marriage; Racial Differences; Schooling; Transition Rates, Activity to Work; Work Experience

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Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincaid, Matthijs Kalmijn and Nelson Lim. "Men's Career Development and Marriage Timing During a Period of Rising Inequality." Working Paper, University of California - Los Angeles and Utrecht University, October 1996.
3. Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincaid
Kalmijn, Matthijs
Lim, Nelson
Men's Career Development and Marriage Timing During a Period of Rising Inequality
Demography 34,3 (August 1997): 311-330.
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Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Earnings; Education Indicators; Event History; Job Analysis; Marriage; Racial Differences; Schooling; Transition Rates, Activity to Work; Work Experience

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Based on data from 1979-1990 NLSY interviews, we investigate the implications of rising economic inequality for young men's marriage timing. Our approach is to relate marriage formation to the ease or difficulty of the career-entry process and to show that large race/schooling differences in career development lead to substantial variations in marriage timing. We develop measures of current career "maturity" and of long-term labor-market position. Employing discrete-time event-history methods, we show that these variables have a substantial impact on marriage formation for both blacks and whites. Applying our regression results to models based on observed race/schooling patterns of career development, we then estimate cumulative proportions ever married in a difficult versus an easy career-entry process. We find major differences in the pace of marriage formation, depending on the difficulty of the career transition. We also find considerable differences in these marriage timing patterns across race/schooling groups corresponding to the large observed differences in the speed and difficulty of career transitions between and within these groups. ©2000-2002 JSTOR
Bibliography Citation
Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincaid, Matthijs Kalmijn and Nelson Lim. "Men's Career Development and Marriage Timing During a Period of Rising Inequality." Demography 34,3 (August 1997): 311-330.
4. Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincaid
Kalmijn, Matthijs
Lim, Nelson
Lew, Vivian
Men's Career Development and Marriage Timing: Race and Schooling Differences
Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America, May 1996
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Population Association of America
Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Earnings; Educational Returns; Event History; Job Analysis; Marriage; Racial Differences; Schooling; Work Experience

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

Based upon data from 1979-1990 NLSY interviews, this study investigates how the ease or difficulty of young men's transition to a mature working life affects first-marriage timing. We develop measures of career "maturity" and of current as well as long-term earnings position and, employing discrete-time event-history methods, show that these have a substantial impact on marriage formation for both blacks and whites. Using our regression results, we then estimate cumulative proportions ever-married under two career-entry scenarios: a "difficult" vs. an "easier" career-entry process. We find major differences in the pace of marriage formation, depending on the difficulty of the career transition. We also find considerable differences in these marriage timing patterns across race-schooling groups, corresponding to the large observed differences m the speed and difficulty of career transitions among these groups. In conclusion, we argue that studying men's career-entry process can make an important contribution to understanding trends and differentials in marriage timing.
Bibliography Citation
Oppenheimer, Valerie Kincaid, Matthijs Kalmijn, Nelson Lim and Vivian Lew. "Men's Career Development and Marriage Timing: Race and Schooling Differences." Presented: New Orleans, LA, Population Association of America, May 1996.