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The job training experiences of black and white women, 1970–1991
Author(s) -
Caputo Richard K.,
Cianni Mary
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
human resource development quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.756
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1532-1096
pISSN - 1044-8004
DOI - 10.1002/hrdq.3920080303
Subject(s) - human capital , race (biology) , cohort , training (meteorology) , demographic economics , psychology , job training , variance (accounting) , demography , economics , sociology , economic growth , vocational education , geography , medicine , gender studies , pedagogy , accounting , meteorology
This study uses data from the National Longitudinal Study of Labor Market Experience, Young Women's Cohort, to examine job training characteristics and sociodemographic factors that had a significant impact on the earning potential of women throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Specifically, we investigated the job training patterns of women, by race, across the two decades; the influence of family status on training opportunities; the effects of demographic characteristics as well as training attributes on completion rates of women, by race; and the contribution of human capital on income levels. Most significant is the finding that as the cohort of women matured, the cumulative intensity of job training began to account for some variance in income, albeit marginal.