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1. Andrisani, Paul J.
Appelbaum, Eileen
Koppel, Ross
Miljus, Robert C.
Work Attitudes and Work Experience: The Impact of Attitudes on Behavior
R and D Monograph 60. Washington, DC: US Department of Labor, 1979
Cohort(s): Mature Women, Older Men, Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Behavior; Career Patterns; Discrimination, Sex; Job Satisfaction; Locus of Control (see Rotter Scale); Occupational Attainment; Rotter Scale (see Locus of Control); Training, Occupational; Work Attitudes

This monograph is a summary (prepared by Dr. Florence M. Casey, Office of Research and Development, Employment and Training Administration, USDOL) of the authors' book Work Attitudes and Labor Market Experience: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Surveys (Praeger, 1978). Job satisfaction was found to decline somewhat between 1966 and 1972 and the decline was most pronounced among white collar workers, service workers, farmers, and craft workers. Fewer than 15 percent of workers reported disliking their jobs, however. Inequities in distribution of rewards among comparable workers were most strongly linked to dissatisfaction. Workers with stronger internality enjoyed greater success than others. Dissatisfaction is linked to higher turnover and unemployment and decreased wages, except blacks, who improved their wages by changing employers. Purely economic rewards were not so important to satisfied workers as job content, but they were major causes of dissatisfaction among those who were less than highly satisfied. Motivation and high occupational goals were important for younger workers. Strong commitment to work resulted in less time out of the labor force, greater investment in training (among younger women and older men) and greater labor market advancement (among younger and older women). White working women who perceived their husbands as disapproving of their working outside the home advanced less in occupational status, had more unemployment and weeks out of the labor force, and had less likelihood of getting formal occupational training than women whose husbands did not object to their working.
Bibliography Citation
Andrisani, Paul J., Eileen Appelbaum, Ross Koppel and Robert C. Miljus. Work Attitudes and Work Experience: The Impact of Attitudes on Behavior. R and D Monograph 60. Washington, DC: US Department of Labor, 1979.
2. Bielby, William T.
Hawley, Clifford B.
Bills, David
Research Uses of the National Longitudinal Surveys
R and D Monograph 62. Washington, DC: US Department of Labor, 1979
Cohort(s): NLS General
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): NLS Description; Research Methodology; School Quality

This report on the research uses of the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience has several purposes. First, it provides a comprehensive survey of the research that has utilized the panel data on the four NLS cohorts. Second, it compares the research done with the content of the surveys in order to identify neglected research opportunities. Third, it suggests direction for future research based on the NLS. Fourth, the information in this report may aid in the research design for surveys of two new youth cohorts and continuing surveys of the four existing cohorts.
Bibliography Citation
Bielby, William T., Clifford B. Hawley and David Bills. Research Uses of the National Longitudinal Surveys. R and D Monograph 62. Washington, DC: US Department of Labor, 1979.
3. Casey, Florence M.
Work Attitudes and Work Experience: The Impact of Attitudes on Behavior
R and D Monograph 60. Washington, DC: US Department of Labor, 1979
Cohort(s): Mature Women, Older Men, Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Behavior; Earnings; Job Satisfaction; Job Turnover; Locus of Control (see Rotter Scale); Rotter Scale (see Locus of Control); Unemployment; Work Attitudes; Work History

This report is based on the study Work Attitudes and Labor Market Experience: Evidence from the National Longitudinal Surveys by Paul Andrisani, Eileen Applebaum, Ross Koppel, and Robert C. Miljus of the Center for Labor and Human Resource Studies, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.
Bibliography Citation
Casey, Florence M. Work Attitudes and Work Experience: The Impact of Attitudes on Behavior. R and D Monograph 60. Washington, DC: US Department of Labor, 1979.
4. Mott, Frank L.
The Socioeconomic Status of Households Headed by Women: Results from the National Longitudinal Surveys
R and D Monograph 72. Washington, DC: US Department of Labor, 1979
Cohort(s): Mature Women, Young Women
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Divorce; Family Income; Marital Disruption; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Widows

A brief narrative description of the journal article, document, or resource. A study of the socioeconomic status of households headed by women was conducted based upon data obtained from the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) of Labor Market Experience. (Since the mid-1960s NLS has been following labor market experiences of four cohorts of persons including male and female youth and mature men and women.) This study used data from both the younger cohort of women (aged 14-24 when first interviewed) and the older cohort of women (ages 30-44 when first interviewed). Each of the cohorts included about 5,000 individuals, with an overrepresentation of blacks in each. The findings indicated that marital disruption is an economic disaster to many women. On average, family income is cut in half during te transition year when divorce, separation, or death of husband occurs. Also pointed out was that black female heads of households are more severely disadvantaged in the labor market than are whites. Black women heading households are less likely to be employed. The transition from marriage to head of household usually results in an increase in employment for mature white women, but a decline for blacks. Moreover, black women who are working hold lower status jobs than their white counterparts. Overall, the economic differences between mature black and white women heads of households reflected that black women were less likely to have completed high school and more likely to have a health problem limiting the amount or kind of work they could do. (Author/BM) Source of the abstract: ERIC or Author; prior to 2005, abstractor initials appeared at the end of the abstract.
Bibliography Citation
Mott, Frank L. The Socioeconomic Status of Households Headed by Women: Results from the National Longitudinal Surveys. R and D Monograph 72. Washington, DC: US Department of Labor, 1979.
5. Mott, Frank L.
Sandell, Steven H.
Shapiro, David
Brito, Patricia K.
Years for Decision, Volume 4: A Longitudinal Study of the Educational, Labor Market and Family Experiences of Young Women, 1968 to 1973
R and D Monograph 24, Volume 4. Washington, DC: US GPO, 1978.
Cohort(s): Young Women
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Children; College Education; Educational Attainment; Job Training; Marital Disruption; Migration; Occupational Aspirations; Socioeconomic Status (SES); Unemployment

Also published as: Published as: Women, Work, and Family. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1978. This monograph describes the changes both in the attitudes of women toward working outside the home and in their actual participation in the work force. It is based on a five-year longitudinal study of more than 5, 000 women aged 14 to 24 when first interviewed. Based on a comprehensive set of data obtained through personal interviews with a national sample of young women over the period 1968 to 1973, these studies focus either on aspects of the labor market experience of the current generation of young women or on facets of their lives that have substantial relationships to their labor market activity. Included are: preparation for the world of work-college attendance; labor force dynamics associated with withdrawal from and reentry into the labor force due to childbirth; the characteristics of young women that are associated with the choice of an "atypical," or "male" occupation; whether investment in on-the-job training is related to an expectation of long-term attachment to the labor force; some of the causes as well as the consequences of migration for the economic welfare of young women and their families; some of the determinants of marital disruption, and also the short- run economic consequences for women and children.
Bibliography Citation
Mott, Frank L., Steven H. Sandell, David Shapiro and Patricia K. Brito. Years for Decision, Volume 4: A Longitudinal Study of the Educational, Labor Market and Family Experiences of Young Women, 1968 to 1973. R and D Monograph 24, Volume 4. Washington, DC: US GPO, 1978..