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Title: The Establishment of Stable and Successful Employment Careers: The Role of Work Attitudes and Labor Market Knowledge
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1. Andrisani, Paul J.
The Establishment of Stable and Successful Employment Careers: The Role of Work Attitudes and Labor Market Knowledge
In: Conference Report on Youth Unemployment: Its Measurement and Meaning. Washington DC: U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. GPO, 1978.
Also: http://www.cceerc.net/ICPSR/biblio/series/129/resources/1852?sortBy=1&paging.startRow=1&author=Andrisani%2C+Paul+J.
Cohort(s): Young Men, Young Women
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): Career Patterns; Work Attitudes; Work Experience; Work Knowledge

This study analyzes the work attitudes and labor market knowledge of youths, considering how they differ from their older counterparts and how they affect and are affected by successes and failures upon entry into the labor force. The findings show the importance of work attitudes and adequate labor market knowledge for the establishment of stable and successful employment careers. The data indicate that there exists inadequate labor market knowledge among youth-especially blacks, females, poor white youth; however, there is little justification that the attitudes toward work of youths are inadequate, immature, anti-work, or the cause for their unique labor problems. In addition, youth's work attitudes were dissimilar from those of older workers; they reflected considerable ambition in planning career goals, and they were shown to be influenced in an anti-work direction by unsatisfactory labor market experiences early in work careers.
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Andrisani, Paul J. "The Establishment of Stable and Successful Employment Careers: The Role of Work Attitudes and Labor Market Knowledge" In: Conference Report on Youth Unemployment: Its Measurement and Meaning. Washington DC: U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. GPO, 1978.