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Direct linkOlatunji, Anane N. – Harvard Educational Review, 2005
In this article, Anane Olatunji examines the effects of work experience on early high school attrition among Mexican-origin adolescents. He proposes a theoretical model that takes assimilation into account as a potential predictor of the consequences of work for this group. In order to estimate the effects of eighth-grade work experience on…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Work Experience, Student Attrition, Youth Employment
