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Source: Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University
Resulting in 2 citations.
1. Miljus, Robert C.
Parnes, Herbert S.
Schmidt, Ronald M.
Spitz, Ruth S.
Some Correlates of the Labor Market Status of Male Youth
In: Transition from School to Work: A Report Based on the Princeton Manpower Symposium May 9-10, 1968: Research Report Series No: 111. Princeton, NJ: Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University, 1968.
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Cohort(s): Young Men
Publisher: Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University
Keyword(s): Current Population Survey (CPS) / CPS-Fertility Supplement; Educational Aspirations/Expectations; Health Factors; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Transition, School to Work; Unemployment, Youth

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Among the variables which have thus far been investigated in our research, enrollment status, high school curriculum and educational aspirations, age, marital status, health condition, and veteran status are systematically related to the labor force participation of young men. Of these, the most powerful explanatory variable, as would be expected, is whether the young man is enrolled in school. On the average, those who are not enrolled are almost twice as likely to be in the labor force as are those who are currently attending school.
Bibliography Citation
Miljus, Robert C., Herbert S. Parnes, Ronald M. Schmidt and Ruth S. Spitz. "Some Correlates of the Labor Market Status of Male Youth" In: Transition from School to Work: A Report Based on the Princeton Manpower Symposium May 9-10, 1968: Research Report Series No: 111. Princeton, NJ: Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University, 1968.
2. Reimers, Cordelia
Garvey, Nancy
Toward a Better Measure of Work Experience
Working Paper No. 119, Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University, 1979
Cohort(s): Young Women
Publisher: Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University
Keyword(s): Job Tenure; Racial Differences; Research Methodology; Work History

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This paper supports the use of the NLS as being one of the few data sets which provide measures of experience adequate for estimating an earning function as well as all the other data needed. Using the Young Women's cohort, the authors specify equations to predict work experience. The results indicate that demographic information can be used to improve the prediction of experience over that resulting from the common practice of using "potential experience". Not only do race and health make significant differences to amount of experience, but it is also found that marriage and childbearing have significant effects on accumulated work experience of women even at relatively young ages. In light of the significant improvement of the linear estimating equation over the traditional method of estimating experience, the authors feel a Tobit estimation would improve the fit still further. Given data sets with sufficient detail on work histories, this general method could also be applied to provide better predicting equations for actual experience for men and older women.
Bibliography Citation
Reimers, Cordelia and Nancy Garvey. "Toward a Better Measure of Work Experience." Working Paper No. 119, Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University, 1979.