Do School-to-Work Programs Help the "Forgotten Half"?

David Neumark and Donna Rothstein ()
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Donna Rothstein: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

No 1740, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: This paper tests whether school-to-work (STW) programs are particularly beneficial for those less likely to go to college in their absence – often termed the "forgotten half" in the STW literature. The empirical analysis is based on the NLSY97, which allows us to study six types of STW programs, including job shadowing, mentoring, coop, school enterprises, tech prep, and internships/apprenticeships. For men there is quite a bit of evidence that STW program participation is particularly advantageous for those in the forgotten half. For these men, specifically, mentoring and coop programs increase post-secondary education, and coop, school enterprise, and internship/apprenticeship programs boost employment and decrease idleness after leaving high school. There is less evidence that STW programs are particularly beneficial for women in the forgotten half, although internship/apprenticeship programs do lead to positive earnings effects concentrated among these women.

Keywords: school-to-career; school-to-work; education; employment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I28 J15 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2005-09
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Published - published in: David Neumark (ed.), Improving School-to-Work Transitions. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2007, pp. 87-133

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