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Title: Labor Force Attachment of American Youth
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Ay, Unal |
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Labor Force Attachment of American Youth Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1985 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Employment, Youth; Gender Differences; Labor Force Participation; Racial Differences; Work Attitudes The purpose of this study was to develop a model measuring the labor force attachment of American youth. Data were obtained from the National Longitudinal Surveys, Labor Market Experience of Youth (NLS) in which youth 14 to 21 years old were first interviewed in 1979. Two questions included in this study were: (1) Can acceptable models of labor force attachment of American youth be created from observed measures of youth commitment to work, willingness to engage in paid employment, and work experience? (2) Are models of labor force attachment of American youth equally appropriate for sex, race, and age groups? Two and three latent variable models of youth labor force attachment were developed through confirmatory factor analysis of observed measures. Results of the analysis showed that both models fit the data fairly well, but measures of fit were higher in the three latent variable model, indicating that it was a slightly better model than the two latent variable model. Measures of fit of the model to the data across the sex-race-age groups were about the same; that is, while some observed variables highly correlated with the same latent variable in all groups, there we some that were weakly correlated in all groups. The model with three latent variables did not fit the category by race, because the T matrix was not positive definite for Whites. |
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Bibliography Citation
Ay, Unal. Labor Force Attachment of American Youth. Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1985. |