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Title: Vocational Education and the Younger Adult Worker
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Mertens, Donna M. Gardner, John A. |
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Vocational Education and the Younger Adult Worker Report, U.S. Department of Education, Columbus OH: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, The Ohio State University, 1981. Also: http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED215145.pdf Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women Publisher: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, The Ohio State University Keyword(s): Earnings; NLS of H.S. Class of 1972; Unemployment; Vocational Education; White Collar Jobs; Younger Adult Worker Study Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. The Younger Adult Workers (YAW) study examined the long-range impact of participation in vocational education through a national cross-sectional survey of 1,539 persons aged 20 to 34 who were in the civilian labor force. The results of the Younger Adult Workers Survey were supplemented by analyses of two other national data bases-- the NLS of Young Men and Young Women and the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of l972 (Class of '72). Critics of vocational education contend that because the vocational curriculum prepares students for immediate employment, it limits longer-term opportunities. Vocational education does so, these critics allege, by directing, or "tracking," disadvantaged, minority, and female youngsters into programs that prepare them for low status, low paying jobs that offer no opportunity for advancement. The results concerning earnings for the three curriculum groups definitely discount the allegations that vocational education prepares youngsters for low status, low paying jobs. Positive earnings effects were found for male marketing and trade graduates, as well as for female business and trade graduates. However, consistently negative effects on earnings were found for women in the "other" vocational category, as well as for women as compared to men. On the positive side, unemployment was reduced, especially for business and marketing females. |
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Mertens, Donna M. and John A. Gardner. "Vocational Education and the Younger Adult Worker." Report, U.S. Department of Education, Columbus OH: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, The Ohio State University, 1981. |