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Title: Labor Supply of Young, Married, Former Participants in Vocational Education in Secondary Schools in the United States
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Wang, Dan Shang |
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Labor Supply of Young, Married, Former Participants in Vocational Education in Secondary Schools in the United States Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1989 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Assets; Educational Attainment; Gender Differences; Health Factors; High School Curriculum; High School Transcripts; Hispanics; Labor Force Participation; Labor Supply; Marital Status; Variables, Independent - Covariate; Vocational Education The purpose of this study is to determine whether taking vocational courses in high school would affect married youths' labor supply behavior. Data for this study were obtained from the NLSY for the years 1985 and 1986. The total sample consisted of 1,186 respondents who had completed at least a high school education, who were married and not enrolled in school at the time of the 1985 interview, and who had high school transcript data available. Employing static labor supply theory, two dependent variables were used to measure labor supply: labor force participation and annual hours of work. The independent variables used in the labor supply models were: high school curriculum, family assets, nonlabor income, spouse income, wage rate, educational attainment, age, race, number of dependents in the family, family socioeconomic status, health limitation, and local unemployment rate. Four major statistical methods were applied to analyze data: simple cross-tabulation, logistic regression, OLS regression, and Tobit regression. After stratifying labor supply models by gender, the major findings of this study were: (1) Among women, compared to general education participants, vocational education had significantly greater labor supply while academic education participants had significantly lower labor supply. (2) Both men's and women's uncompensated wage elasticities were positive. (3) Among married men, educational attainment (negative), age (positive), and family socioeconomic background (positive) had significant effects on annual hours of work; while among married women, educational attainment (positive), age (negative), race/ethnicity (positive for blacks and negative for Hispanics), and number of dependents (negative) had significant effects on labor supply. |
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Wang, Dan Shang. Labor Supply of Young, Married, Former Participants in Vocational Education in Secondary Schools in the United States. Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1989. |