This study used a new specification of participation in vocational education to estimate the effects of high school curriculum on the labor market experiences of youth. Five patterns of participation developed in an earlier study--intensity of training, continuity of training, proximity of training to time of graduation, diversity of program…

This study examined the effects of secondary vocational education on the post-high school educational activities of youth. Data used in the study were taken from the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience, New Youth Cohort (NLS Youth), supplemented with information from the respondents' high school transcripts. Findings included…

Demographic, economic, attitudinal, and school-related variables from a national survey are studied to determine factors that lead high school seniors to go directly to college. Findings portend an increase in enrollment due to delayed marriage plans by women, population growth, and parental education level. (TE)

A study examined the differential effects of experiences prior to labor force entry, primarily in high school, on the later sex-typicality of occupations and earnings of non-college-bound men and women. The study analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Surveys of the Labor Market Experiences of Young Men and Women. (These surveys lnvolved…