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Title: Early Careers and Life Course Transitions for Three Cohorts of Young Adults
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Branstad, Jennifer |
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Early Careers and Life Course Transitions for Three Cohorts of Young Adults Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, 2017 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY97 Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Family Formation; Life Course; Marriage; Mobility, Labor Market; Transition, Adulthood Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using a mixed-method approach and data from two cohorts of young adults, I investigate how employment structures and economic contexts influence individuals' movement through the labor market and how their labor market experiences are linked to other spheres of life, chiefly marriage and parenthood. In Chapter 2, I evaluate how employment transitions affect wage level and wage growth. Contrary to expectations, I find that voluntary mobility in the early career period has not increased and, in fact, workers in the 1980s have more employers in their early careers than workers in the 2000s. While moving from job-to-job increases wages for workers in both the 1980s and 2000s, both the prevalence and negative consequences of involuntary mobility is lower for workers in the 2000s. These findings suggest that there is less scarring from non-voluntary mobility for contemporary young adults and that voluntary, strategic mobility can be used to build financially rewarding careers. In Chapter 3, I compare sequences of employment, school, marriage and parenthood for two cohorts of young adults. I find that there has been a substantial increase in the concentration of young adults in trajectories defined by education and employment suggesting that contemporary young adults are prioritizing attending college and establishing their careers over starting a family in their 20s. This finding is especially pronounced for women. |
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Branstad, Jennifer. Early Careers and Life Course Transitions for Three Cohorts of Young Adults. Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Washington, 2017. |