Publication Date
In 2025 | 0 |
Since 2024 | 0 |
Since 2021 (last 5 years) | 0 |
Since 2016 (last 10 years) | 0 |
Since 2006 (last 20 years) | 36 |
Descriptor
Labor Market | 53 |
Foreign Countries | 18 |
Females | 11 |
Gender Differences | 11 |
Males | 10 |
Educational Attainment | 9 |
Employment | 8 |
Equal Opportunities (Jobs) | 8 |
Labor | 8 |
Employment Patterns | 7 |
Income | 7 |
More ▼ |
Source
Social Forces | 53 |
Author
Publication Type
Journal Articles | 51 |
Reports - Research | 30 |
Reports - Evaluative | 15 |
Reports - Descriptive | 4 |
Historical Materials | 2 |
Opinion Papers | 2 |
Information Analyses | 1 |
Numerical/Quantitative Data | 1 |
Education Level
Adult Education | 3 |
Grade 8 | 1 |
High Schools | 1 |
Higher Education | 1 |
Audience
Location
United States | 9 |
Mexico | 3 |
China | 2 |
Germany | 2 |
Israel | 2 |
Japan | 2 |
Netherlands | 2 |
Russia | 2 |
Australia | 1 |
California | 1 |
Canada | 1 |
More ▼ |
Laws, Policies, & Programs
Aid to Families with… | 1 |
Assessments and Surveys
National Longitudinal Survey… | 3 |
General Educational… | 1 |
General Social Survey | 1 |
International Adult Literacy… | 1 |
What Works Clearinghouse Rating

Sandefur, Gary D.; Cook, Steven T. – Social Forces, 1998
Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth indicate that the likelihood of permanently leaving Aid to Families with Dependent Children decreased with the length of time that women received benefits, and was also affected by marital status, number of children, educational attainment, job-related skills, employment experience, and the…
Descriptors: Client Characteristics (Human Services), Educational Attainment, Employment Experience, Females

Bellair, Paul E.; Roscigno, Vincent J. – Social Forces, 2000
Analyses of local labor market data and national longitudinal survey data on adolescents suggest strong effects of low-wage service-sector concentration and unemployment on the likelihood of both fighting and drug use among adolescents. Mediating processes included the patterning of family income, family intactness, and adolescent attachment to…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Influence, Delinquency, Drug Use

Shanahan, Michael J.; Miech, Richard A.; Elder, Glen H., Jr. – Social Forces, 1998
Uses data from Occupational Changes in a Generation surveys to examine labor market effects on male dropout rates at various grade levels. As expected, opportunities in manufacturing drew students from primary school before World War II, whereas government sector expansion increased secondary and college-level dropouts after the war, particularly…
Descriptors: Dropouts, Education Work Relationship, Educational Attainment, Elementary Secondary Education

Wadsworth, Tim – Social Forces, 2000
Analysis of data from the National Survey of Families and Households suggests that parents' job characteristics, indicative of the primary- and secondary-sector labor market division, influence levels of parental supervision of children and children's feelings of attachment and efficacy, educational aspirations, and grade point average, all of…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Educational Attitudes, Employment Level, Family Work Relationship
Parrado, Emilio A. – Social Forces, 2005
This paper compares men's career opportunities and intra-generational class mobility across periods with markedly different development strategies in Mexico. Despite its significance for social stratification and inequality in Mexico, research on mobility has been relatively scant in recent decades. Using data from the National Retrospective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Opportunities, Social Stratification, Males
Ainsworth, James W.; Roscigno, Vincent J. – Social Forces, 2005
Building on more classical status attainment and reproduction perspectives, this article examines the extent of class, race and gender inequality in high school vocational education, and the consequences for students' later educational and occupational trajectories. Analyses demonstrate significant class, race and gender disparities in vocational…
Descriptors: Academic Aspiration, Education Work Relationship, Racial Bias, Social Bias

McBrier, Debra Branch – Social Forces, 2003
Published data and previous research on law faculty were analyzed to examine whether women advance more slowly than men in the law academic labor market. Women moved more slowly than men across the boundary between secondary and primary jobs, influenced by a mixture of factors, including family and geographic constraints, social capital,…
Descriptors: Academic Rank (Professional), Achievement, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Faculty Promotion

Werum, Regina – Social Forces, 2002
A study examined whether federal New Deal policy goals matched local policy outcomes in Mississippi, Georgia, and North Carolina. Data from 337 counties indicate that policy outcomes matched goals in that women's access to vocational training remained narrowly constrained. Additional funds mostly benefitted men's programs. Contrary to…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Education Work Relationship, Equal Education, Federal Programs