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Title: From School to Work: A Transition with Job Search Implications
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1. Stephenson, Stanley P., Jr.
From School to Work: A Transition with Job Search Implications
Youth and Society 11,1 (September 1979): 114-132.
Also: http://yas.sagepub.com/content/11/1/114
Cohort(s): Young Men
Publisher: Sage Publications
Keyword(s): Health/Health Status/SF-12 Scale; Job Search; Marital Status; Part-Time Work; Schooling; Transition, School to Work; Unemployment; Wages

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This article adapts a human capital model of schooling and earnings to focus on the transition period. The adaptation consists of two steps. First, unemployment incidence and duration after last leaving school, but prior to the first job taken, is included as an intervening part of the transition process. A second feature is the consideration of the extent to which job holding while in school alters subsequent unemployment and wage rates. The main result concerns the unemployment and wage equations. Holding a job while in school lowers the incidence of duration of later unemployment and raises the subsequent hourly wage for both white and black youth. Full-time job effects exceed part-time job effects in both equations and all effects are highly significant statistically. Job search theory suggests some types of unemployment behavior may lead to a higher wage, and a positive but nonsignificant effect of unemployment on the postschool wage was found for black youth. For white youth, however, significant and negative impacts of unemployment on the postschool wage were found.
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Stephenson, Stanley P., Jr. "From School to Work: A Transition with Job Search Implications." Youth and Society 11,1 (September 1979): 114-132.