Barriers to Employment for Out-of-School Youth: Evidence from a Sample of Recent CET Applicants

Autor/inn/en	Miller, Cynthia; Porter, Kristin E.
Institution	Manpower Demonstration Research Corp., New York, NY.
Titel	Barriers to Employment for Out-of-School Youth: Evidence from a Sample of Recent CET Applicants
Quelle	(2005), (43 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Wages; Females; Dropouts; Out of School Youth; High School Graduates; Employment Patterns; Disadvantaged Youth; Early Parenthood; Youth Problems; Employment Problems; Gender Differences; Followup Studies; Crime; Labor Market; Unemployment; Economic Climate; Experience; High School Equivalency Programs; Multivariate Analysis; Education Work Relationship; Vocational Education; Adult Education; California + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Wage; Löhne; Weibliches Geschlecht; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; High school; High schools; Graduate; Graduates; Oberschule; Absolvent; Absolventin; Beschäftigungsstruktur; Benachteiligter Jugendlicher; Beschäftigungssituation; Geschlechterkonflikt; Follow-up studies; Kontaktstudium; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Labour market; Arbeitsmarkt; Arbeitslosigkeit; Wirtschaftslage; Erfahrung; Multivariate Analyse; Ausbildung; Berufsbildung; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Kalifornien
Abstract	This paper examines employment and earnings over a four-year period for a group of disadvantaged out-of-school youth who entered the Evaluation of the Center for Employment Training (CET) Replication Sites between 1995 and 1999. It assesses the importance of three key factors as barriers to employment: lack of a high school diploma, having children, and having an arrest record. The findings show that dropouts worked less than high school graduates, largely because of greater employment instability among men and because of both instability and longer spells of joblessness among women. Female dropouts had especially low employment rates and wages, and the negative effects of dropping out occurred primarily among women with children. Male dropouts did as well as high school graduates in terms of wages, although their overall job quality remained lower. For women, the results show no negative effects on employment or wages of having children at study entry. Although not measuring the effects of new births, these results suggest that any effects of early childbearing may be short-lived. Finally, men with previous arrests worked less over the follow-up period than other men, owing entirely to longer spells of joblessness, and they earned substantially lower wages. The findings suggest that these men may have faced an increasingly difficult time finding jobs as the economy weakened. (Contains 13 tables and 5 figures.) (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10