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Title: 'Second-Chance' Strategies for Women Who Drop Out of School
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Boudett, Kathryn Parker Murnane, Richard J. Willett, John B. |
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'Second-Chance' Strategies for Women Who Drop Out of School Monthly Labor Review 123,12 (December 2000): 19-31. Also: http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2000/12/art2abs.htm Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Earnings; Economics of Gender; Educational Returns; High School Dropouts; Human Capital; Job Tenure; Poverty; Training; Training, On-the-Job; Wage Differentials; Women's Education This article investigates four educational opportunities pursued by young women who drop out of high school. It begins with a discussion of the mechanisms through which these educational investments may affect earnings, and offers a brief review of relevant research. It then documents the ways in which women who engage in educational activities differ from those who do not. Next discussed is the analytic strategy employed for distinguishing the effects of education and training on earnings from the effects of different preexisting characteristics on earnings. The article concludes with a presentation of the results of the study and a discussion of their significance. Findings include the fact that young female dropouts may make several kinds of educational investments, all of which enhance earned income markedly; for the average woman, however, the increase in earnings is not enough to lift a family out of poverty. Copyright Superintendent of Documents Dec 2000. |
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Boudett, Kathryn Parker, Richard J. Murnane and John B. Willett. "'Second-Chance' Strategies for Women Who Drop Out of School." Monthly Labor Review 123,12 (December 2000): 19-31.
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