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Author: Geer, Edward Marshall
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1. Geer, Edward Marshall
Relationship Between Participation in Vocational Education, Pay, and Employment of 16- to 21-Year-Olds in the Continental United States
Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1984. DAI-A 46/01, p. 134, Jul 1985
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning
Keyword(s): Collective Bargaining; Labor Force Participation; Rural Sociology; Self-Reporting; Urban and Regional Planning; Vocational Education; Vocational Training

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between participation in vocational education and pay and employment of civilian 16- to 21-year-olds in the continental United States. Data for this research were obtained from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience for the years 1979, 1980 and 1981. Data were collected from 11,406 civilian non-institutionalized youth who were not enrolled in school at the time of the interview. Three criterion variables were used in this study: labor force status, employment status, and hourly rate of pay. The following variables were used: age, race, gender, marital status, responsibility for the support of dependents, high school diploma (or GED), location of current residence (Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area - SMSA), whether residence is urban or rural, collective bargaining, local unemployment rate, and participation in vocational education. This study utilized the self-reported method of participation in vocational education as well as transcript data contained on the NLS computer tapes. Three methods of analysis were applied to the data. Cross-tabulation was utilized to determine the relationship between participation in vocational education and labor force status. Least squares regression was used to determine the relationship between the variates and the criterion variable hourly rate of pay. Logistic regression was used to analyze the relationship between the variates and employment status. The findings were of two types: variates that showed a distinct relationship with the criterion variable; and those which were significant because they did not show any relationship with the criterion variables. Of the former, only the year 1979 and utilizing transcript data, did the total for males and females show a positive relationship for each additional Carnegie Unit earned in vocational education when regressed on labor force participation. Also, for 1979, males and the total for males and females showed a positive relationship for each additional Carnegie Unit earned when regressed on employment. Males, for 1980, who gave self-reports for participation in vocational education, showed a negative relationship when regressed on employment. No relationship exists between the other variates and the criterion variables.
Bibliography Citation
Geer, Edward Marshall. Relationship Between Participation in Vocational Education, Pay, and Employment of 16- to 21-Year-Olds in the Continental United States. Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 1984. DAI-A 46/01, p. 134, Jul 1985.
2. Passmore, David L.
Ay, Unal
Geer, Edward Marshall
Reliability of the Knowledge of the World of Work Test
Journal of Studies in Technical Careers 4,4 (Fall 1982): 309-311.
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Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Keyword(s): Disadvantaged, Economically; Earnings; Employment; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Job Satisfaction; Teenagers; Tests and Testing; World of Work Test

Eric Document: EJ266719

A recent study of the need for teaching youth about the labor market concluded that underprivileged youth lack information common to their more privileged counterparts. This brief note looks carefully at the statistics employed by that study.

Bibliography Citation
Passmore, David L., Unal Ay and Edward Marshall Geer. "Reliability of the Knowledge of the World of Work Test." Journal of Studies in Technical Careers 4,4 (Fall 1982): 309-311.