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Title: A Historical Perspective on High School Students Paid Employment and its Association with High School Dropout

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Publication Year: 2003

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Abstract: Discussions about the role of paid employment in high school students lives have typically operated under untested assumptions about historical trends in the frequency, intensity, and selective nature of students employment. Using a variety of nationally representative data sources, we find few changes in rates of employment or intensive employment among adolescents since 1940 or among students since 1980. We observe important changes in recent decades in race/ethnic and gender differences in employment and intensive employment. Finally, we observe that the relationship between students intensive employment and high school completion has been stable and persistently large since the late 1960s.

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Authors: Cataldi, Emily F.; Warren, John Robert

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Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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