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Title: Vocational Education, Training, and Job Skills for Youth
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Grasso, John T. |
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Vocational Education, Training, and Job Skills for Youth Presented: San Francisco, CA, American Educational Research Association Meetings, 1976 Cohort(s): Young Men Publisher: American Educational Research Association Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Duncan Index; Earnings; High School Curriculum; Job Skills; Job Training; Unemployment; Vocational Education Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This is a report of research concerning the role of high school education in preparing youth for the world of work. Its undertaking is related to many events in the past fifteen years: the persistence of high rates of youth unemployment, even during relatively good economic times; the passage of major legislation at the national level on vocational education and training; and, of course, the inception of "career education." The relevance of findings of much existing research to policy questions is sharply circumscribed by limitations in the design, data and methodology of such studies. One example of a problem area involves comparing groups of youth with respect to earnings to determine the "payoff" to "investment" in vocational education. Not only can an emphasis on earnings lead to disregard for other important questions (and it appears that it has) but there are literally a host of complicating factors relevant to appraising results based on the first year's earnings of young persons. Using data from a national sample of youth, the analysis focuses on graduates of various high school curricula who did not continue their education with college. Specifically, data are examined with respect to: (1) their desires for additional training after having gained work experience; (2) the kinds of further training desired; (3) the actual acquisition of such training; and (4) the kinds of first jobs as well as subsequent jobs which were obtained by the youth. In the latter case, variables relating to jobs are based on several ratings of occupations. |
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Grasso, John T. "Vocational Education, Training, and Job Skills for Youth." Presented: San Francisco, CA, American Educational Research Association Meetings, 1976. |