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McNeil, Linda M. – 1984
A study examined the impact of student employment on classroom knowledge. During the study, the researcher administered a branching questionnaire to 1,577 juniors and seniors from four high schools in Wisconsin, 59.6 percent of whom were working at the time of the survey and 14.1 percent of whom had worked during the past year. Despite the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Employment Patterns, High School Students, Influences
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Wooden, Mark; And Others – Australian Journal of Education, 1994
Using data from an Australian longitudinal survey, a study investigated the relationship between part-time employment and the decisions to pursue higher education and to persist after the first year. Results show employment was not critical to persistence. However, employment during secondary school reduced the likelihood of college attendance for…
Descriptors: Academic Persistence, Attendance Patterns, College Bound Students, College Students
Bureau of Labor Statistics (DOL), Washington, DC. – 2001
An analysis of the first three annual rounds of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor, was conducted to determine the employment experiences of youth. (The survey includes a nationally representative sample of about 9,000 young men and women who were born during…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns
Meyer, Katrina A. – 1985
A study examined the patterns of differential status and reward existing among high school students to determine whether the sex-related patterns of salary and employment status discrimination that exist in society as a whole are mirrored in the occupational experiences of in-school adolescent workers. To gather data for the study, the researcher…
Descriptors: Career Choice, Demography, Employment Level, Employment Patterns
Lewin-Epstein, Noah – 1981
Data derived from a National Center for Education Statistics study of 58,728 high school sophomores and seniors, entitled "High School and Beyond," was used to describe youth employment experiences and attitudes. The data showed that employment is common among high school students and seems to be an integral part of adolescence;…
Descriptors: Education Work Relationship, Employment, Employment Experience, Employment Opportunities
Charner, Ivan; Fraser, Bryna Shore – 1988
Participation in work activities by high school students has been increasing over the past 25 years to the point where today at least one-third of all high school students hold part-time jobs in any given week. Student participation in work varies by geographic region and type of community, with older, white, middle-class, male vocational students…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Education Work Relationship, Employment Experience