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Direct linkKim, Soobin; Klager, Christopher; Schneider, Barbara – Journal of Higher Education, 2019
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth of 1979, this article examines the relationship between adolescents' educational and occupational expectations, and how they correspond to their subsequent labor market outcomes in adulthood. We show that over-aligned adolescents, those who expect to obtain more education than is necessary…
Descriptors: Longitudinal Studies, National Surveys, Academic Aspiration, Occupational Aspiration
Download full textNorman, Obed; Pinder, Patrice J.; Shelley, Mack Clayton, II; Harven, Aletha; Nkusi, Maurice – Online Submission, 2021
This paper contains historical views and will demonstrate how issues related to identity impact the stigmatization and marginalizing that underlie the underrepresentation of Black people in the STEM fields. In this paper, identity is defined within the educational context and a framework is provided for exploring how STEM students and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, African Americans, Racial Bias, Self Concept
Cochran, Daria B.; Wang, Eugene W.; Stevenson, Sarah J.; Johnson, Leah E.; Crews, Charles – Career Development Quarterly, 2011
The authors investigated the relationship between adolescent occupational aspirations and midlife career success. The model for adolescent occupational aspirations was derived from Gottfredson's (1981) theory of circumscription and compromise. The authors hypothesized that parental socioeconomic status (SES), ability, and gender predict adolescent…
Descriptors: Occupational Aspiration, Adolescents, Theories, Self Concept
Roksa, Josipa; Levey, Tania – Social Forces, 2010
While income inequality among college graduates is well documented, inequality in occupational status remains largely unexplored. We examine whether and how occupational specificity of college majors is related to college graduates' transition into the labor market and their subsequent occupational trajectories. Analyses of NLSY79 indicate that…
Descriptors: Majors (Students), Credentials, Employment Level, Employment Patterns
Peer reviewedVeum, Jonathan R. – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1995
According to data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1986-1990, length of training did not affect wages; company training, seminars outside of work, and vocational schools were associated with higher wages. Apprenticeships, business schools, and correspondence courses had no apparent impact on wage levels or change in wages over the…
Descriptors: Apprenticeships, Educational Status Comparison, Occupational Aspiration, On the Job Training
Peer reviewedShapiro, David; Crowley, Joan E. – Youth and Society, 1982
Investigates the influence of family characteristics, psychological factors, and socioeconomic factors on youth's occupational status aspirations, female aspirations for atypical occupations, and minority and upper-class youth's employment aspirations. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Choice, Employment Level, Family Characteristics
Hotchkiss, Lawrence – 1987
A project examined the nonecomomic effects of secondary vocational education on six types of outcomes measured while respondents were in high school (basic skills, career expectations, significant others' career expectations for the student, attitudes such as self-esteem and locus of control, grades, and homework), and five types of post-high…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aspiration, Basic Skills, Drug Use
