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Title: Military Skill Training: Some Evidence of Transferability
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Mangum, Stephen L. Ball, David E. |
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Military Skill Training: Some Evidence of Transferability Armed Forces and Society 13,3 (Spring 1987): 425-441. Also: http://afs.sagepub.com/content/13/3/425.abstract Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Inter-University Seminar on Armed Forces & Society Keyword(s): Gender Differences; Military Training; Skills; Training; Transfers, Skill Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Using data from the NLSY, this study examines the skill transferability of military-provided training to civilian employment. With other factors controlled, males were most readily able to transfer training in the service, craft, and equipment repair occupations, while transfer percentages for females were greatest in the traditional occupational stronghold of administrative/functional support. Analysis of skill transfer between nonmilitary training providers and employment showed that the occupational areas offering the greatest probability of skill transfer were similar to those that emerged in the analysis of military training. For males, the probability of skill transfer for those trained by the military was significantly lower than that for those in apprenticeship and employer-provided training programs, but not significantly different from that associated with training through vocational/technical institutes, proprietary business colleges, and so forth. Females involved in employer- provided training, apprenticeships, nursing programs, or beauty school programs were more likely to find jobs in the occupation for which they were trained than were those receiving training in the military. Key in explaining these differences may be the presence of internal labor-market mechanisms, which facilitate the transition from training to work in some institutional settings. Analysis of this data set leaves little reason to doubt the viability of the military as a training provider offering linkages to the civilian work world. |
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Mangum, Stephen L. and David E. Ball. "Military Skill Training: Some Evidence of Transferability." Armed Forces and Society 13,3 (Spring 1987): 425-441.
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