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1.	Klerman, Jacob Alex Karoly, Lynn A.
1.	The Transition to Stable Employment: The Experience of U.S. Youth in Their Early Labor Market Career Report, National Center for Research in Vocational Education, University of California - Berkeley, and RAND, 1995. Also: http://vufind.carli.illinois.edu/vf-uiu/Record/uiu_3773042 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: National Center for Research in Vocational Education, University of California, Berkeley Keyword(s): College Dropouts; College Graduates; Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; High School Diploma; High School Dropouts; Job Tenure; Labor Force Participation; School Completion; Schooling, Post-secondary; Transition, School to Work Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth were analyzed to identify patterns in the early labor market and employment experience of a sample of 12,781 U.S. youths who were first interviewed in 1979 (at ages 14 through 21) and last interviewed in 1990 (at ages 25 through 32 years). School-to-work transition patterns were classified by school-leaving group (SLG) (no high school diploma, high school diploma, some college, college diploma, or some postcollege education). SLGs were analyzed in terms of the following factors: percentage of sample members employed, percentage in school, number of jobs held, and age at entrance into first job. While the median high school graduate entered his "three-year job" while he was 22, the median high school dropout, who first entered the labor force several years earlier, did not enter that job until he was 23. In contrast, the median college graduate--who entered the labor force four years later than the high school graduate--entered his "three-year job" shortly after turning 23. Although racial/ethnic groups and women manifested different employment, school attendance, and job stability patterns, the patterns of school-to-work transition by male high school graduates were surprisingly similarly across the three racial/ethnic groups. By using the SLG classification and a different concept of job duration, the study found less support for the notion that high school graduates typically mill about in the labor market until well into their twenties. It was recommended that school-to-work transition initiatives be targeted toward high school noncompleters. Appended is information about sample distribution by SLG and effect of alternative SLG definitions and/or sample members' return to school. Contains 53 references and 67 tables/figures. (MN)
	Bibliography Citation Klerman, Jacob Alex and Lynn A. Karoly. "The Transition to Stable Employment: The Experience of U.S. Youth in Their Early Labor Market Career." Report, National Center for Research in Vocational Education, University of California - Berkeley, and RAND, 1995.

2.	Klerman, Jacob Alex Karoly, Lynn A.
2.	Young Men and the Transition to Stable Employment Monthly Labor Review 117,8 (August 1994): 31-48, Also: http://stats.bls.gov/opub/mlr/1994/08/art4abs.htm Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Educational Attainment; Employment, Youth; Job Tenure; Labor Turnover; Part-Time Work; Transition, School to Work The transition from school to work among male high school students is more heterogeneous and successful than is normally assumed. Data are from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. A sample of young men from 1978-90 is used to estimate the distribution of their ages at entrance into jobs lasting various lengths of time, researchers found that by age 20 half of all graduates have jobs that will last more than two years and that by age 22 half have jobs that will last more than three years. This refutes the widely held belief that young males flounder from one short-term job to another until their mid-twenties. There is, however, a significant difference between and within the school-leaving groups examined. Although the foregoing characterization holds for the median male high school graduate, those in the 75th percentile did not reach a job with one, two, or three years of tenure until the ages of 20, 23, and 25, respectively.
	Bibliography Citation Klerman, Jacob Alex and Lynn A. Karoly. "Young Men and the Transition to Stable Employment." Monthly Labor Review 117,8 (August 1994): 31-48,.

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