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Title: Issues for Manpower Research on Youth in the Transition from School to Work
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1. Featherman, David L.
Issues for Manpower Research on Youth in the Transition from School to Work
Journal of Economics and Business 32,2 (Winter 1980): 118-125
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Temple University Press
Keyword(s): Behavior; Data Quality/Consistency; High School Completion/Graduates; Life Cycle Research; Research Methodology; Sample Selection; Schooling; Transition, School to Work; Wisconsin Longitudinal Study/H.S. Panel Study (WLS); Work History

Unemployment and job search among youth are conceptualized as behavioral components of the transition into adulthood. Within this life-cycle perspective, recommendations are made for the design and content of empirical studies of the labor force activities of young persons, using the development of the NLS of Young Men as an illustration.
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Featherman, David L. "Issues for Manpower Research on Youth in the Transition from School to Work." Journal of Economics and Business 32,2 (Winter 1980): 118-125.