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Title: Education and Income of Women: An Analysis of NLS
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1. Cho, Pill Jay
Education and Income of Women: An Analysis of NLS
Presented: San Francisco, CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, 1982
Cohort(s): Mature Women
Publisher: American Sociological Association
Keyword(s): Earnings; Education, Secondary; Educational Attainment; Employment; Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Vocational Training

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The effects of education on earnings are not direct but indirect through employment. Level of educational attainment is a proxy for the level of some marketable "skills", which include knowledge and expertise. Education, as a proxy for skills, is used here broadly to include informal (vocational training and other learning experiences) as well as formal school education. Therefore, in testing the modified hypothesis and ascertaining whether the general proposition also holds true for women, both the number of years of school completed and the number of months of vocational training completed were used. Data were obtained from the women subset of the NLS. The effects of number of years of school completed on earnings through employment, controlling for such background variables as labor market conditions, number of children, and health conditions, were found to be significant. The effects of number of months of vocational training completed were barely significant. These findings are consistent with findings from evaluations of numerous short-term training programs, and indicate that emphasis on, and higher investments in, long-range programs under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and Higher Education Act are more desirable than training programs such as WIN or CETA.
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Cho, Pill Jay. "Education and Income of Women: An Analysis of NLS." Presented: San Francisco, CA, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings, 1982.