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Title: The Impact of Private Sector Training on Race and Gender Wage Differentials and the Career Patterns of Young Workers
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Lynch, Lisa M. |
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The Impact of Private Sector Training on Race and Gender Wage Differentials and the Career Patterns of Young Workers NLS Discussion Paper No. 92-8, Washington DC: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1991. Also: http://stats.bls.gov/ore/abstract/nl/nl910030.htm Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Apprenticeships; Career Patterns; Educational Returns; Gender Differences; Job Training; Mobility; Project Talent; Racial Differences; Skill Formation; Training; Training, Off-the-Job; Training, On-the-Job Although there has been increasing attention paid by policy makers and researchers to the topic of U.S. firms' skill formation or training strategies, relatively little is known about the nature of private sector training in the U.S. This in-progress research focuses on two issues that should help develop our understanding of firms' training policies in the U.S. and how such policies affect wages and career patterns of young workers. The two issues to be examined are: (1) race and gender differences in the acquisition of and returns to private sector training; and (2) the impact of private sector training on the job mobility and career paths of young workers. Using data from the NLSY, the analysis will utilize the detailed survey questions on "training from other sources" to examine the training/wage/career patterns of these young workers with special emphasis on race and gender differences. By distinguishing between on-the-job training, training acquired off-the-job, and apprenticeship, this research seeks to identify what proportion of the wage differential for males and females and whites and blacks is explained by differences in the probability of receiving different types of training and what proportion is due to different rates of return to training for these groups. |
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Lynch, Lisa M. "The Impact of Private Sector Training on Race and Gender Wage Differentials and the Career Patterns of Young Workers." NLS Discussion Paper No. 92-8, Washington DC: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1991. |