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Title: A Turnover Analysis of Joblessness for Young Women
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Stephenson, Stanley P., Jr. |
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A Turnover Analysis of Joblessness for Young Women Research in Labor Economics 5 (1982): 279-318 Cohort(s): Young Women Publisher: JAI Press, Inc. Keyword(s): College Dropouts; Job Turnover; Transition Rates, Activity to Work; Transition, School to Work; Unemployment; Unemployment, Youth; Work Experience; Work History This paper is an empirical analysis of the nonemployment of noncollege young women in the first weeks and months after they leave school. By estimating the determinants of transition rates of entering and leaving non-employment, the author is able to show the effect of race, dropout status, and prior work experience on the average length of joblessness, the expected number of work and nonwork spells, the average work spell length, and the steady-state probability of joblessness. In the analysis, special attention is given to the measurement of two types of structural state dependence, subgroup differences in transition rates, and adjustment for the fact that some young women never worked in the 2.7-year observation period. Data used are for young women who left school in l970. Results suggest that in-school job holding affects the rate of job finding for white young women but not for black young women. This prior work experience is interpreted as evidence of lagged employment dependence, a type of state dependence. In contrast, for black young women, labor demand characteristics (not prior work) are important determinants of the rates of entering and leaving nonemployment. One possible reason for this difference concerns the nature of in-school jobs: most black young women who worked in school held government sector jobs, whereas white young women were more likely to have had private sector work experience. Whether or not these prior jobs were associated with racial differences in rates of on-the-job training or merely created such an impression to subsequent employers cannot be determined with the data used here. Yet, the race-specific effect of prior work experience on later employment behavior may have implications for youth employment policies. |
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Stephenson, Stanley P., Jr. "A Turnover Analysis of Joblessness for Young Women." Research in Labor Economics 5 (1982): 279-318.
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