Parallel Lives: Birth, Childhood and Adolescent Influences on Career Paths

Duncan McVicar and Michael Anyadike-Danes

No 134, Econometric Society 2004 Australasian Meetings from Econometric Society

Abstract: This paper uses sequence methods and cluster analysis to create a typology of career paths for a cohort of British 29 year olds born in 1970. There are clear ‘types’ identified by these techniques including several paths dominated by various forms of non-employment. These types are strongly correlated with individual characteristics and parental background factors observed at birth, age ten and age sixteen. By estimating a multinomial logit model of career types we show how policy makers might identify early those young people likely to experience long term non-employment as adults, enabling better targeted preventative policy intervention.

Keywords: careers; cluster analysis; optimal matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004-08-11
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