Measuring employment status, wages, geographic and wage mobility, and education and training program impacts in youth labor markets is difficult. Locating and maintaining contact with youth for measurement is problematic. Geographic mobility and the difficulty and expense of survey–based...

Research addressed the relative impact of vocational versus academic education on employment status. Data from the National Longitudinal Study Youth 1997 (NLSY97) was the primary source of information. The group of black, Hispanic & other ethnicity is less likely to be employed rather than...

This research examined a relationship between youths’ labor force status and their program emphasis in high school in the U.S. by using the dataset of National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) and major labor force indicators estimated from this data. The findings showed that,...

This research examined the school-to-work (STW) program participation of academic and vocational concentrators in high school. Analyzing the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) survey and transcript data, the researchers explored point estimations inferred to the target...