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TRACING THE TIMING OF "CAREER" ACQUISITION IN A CONTEMPORARY YOUTH COHORT.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Contemporary youth typically experience considerable floundering and uncertainty in their transition from school to work. This paper examines patterns of schooling and working during adolescence and the transition to adulthood that hasten or delay an important subjective marker of transition to adulthood: acquiring a job that is recognized as a "career." We use Youth Development Study data, obtained from a prospective longitudinal study of 9(th) graders. Estimation of discrete-time logit models shows that adolescent work patterns during high school, as well as the cumulative investments they make in work and schooling ...
Source: Work and Occupations - July 3, 2008 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Mortimer JT, Vuolo M, Staff J, Wakefield S, Xie W Tags: Work Occup Source Type: journals

Transferred jobs: a neglected aspect of migration and occupational change.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
PMID: 12266764 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
Source: Work and Occupations - May 1, 1983 Category: Occupational Health Authors: Sell RR Tags: Work Occup Source Type: journals