Contents

• PREFACE
  
  
• FIGURES
  
  
• TABLES
  
  
• SUMMARY
  
  
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

1. INTRODUCTION
   • Negative Consequences of Early Career Job Turnover
   • Positive Aspects of Early Career Job Turnover
   • The Role of Values and Assumptions
   • Previous Empirical Research
   • Plan of the Report
   
   
2. THE NATIONAL LONGITUDINAL SURVEY--YOUTH DATA
   • Defining School-Leaving Groups
   • Sample Restrictions
   • Return to School After School Leaving
   • Alternative Approaches to Defining School-Leaving Groups
   
   
3. A STATIC VIEW OF THE SCHOOL-TO-WORK TRANSITION
   • The School-to-Work Transition for Men
   • The School-to-Work Transition for Women
   • The Static Perspective of the School-to-Work Transition
   
   
4. A DYNAMIC VIEW OF THE SCHOOL-TO-WORK TRANSITION
   • Number of Jobs Held in the Early Career
   • Timing of the Transition to Stable Employment
   • The Dynamic Perspective of the School-to-Work Transition
   
   
5. PUTTING THE NLS-Y SAMPLE IN PERSPECTIVE: TRENDS IN ACTIVITY STATUS AND JOB TENURE
   • Static Analysis: Activity Status
   • Dynamic Analysis: Job Tenure
   • Discussion
   
   
6. CONCLUSIONS
   
   Appendix

• A. DISTRIBUTION OF SAMPLE BY SCHOOL-LEAVING GROUPS
• B. SENSITIVITY OF RESULTS TO AN ALTERNATIVE SLG DEFINITION
• C. SENSITIVITY OF RESULTS OF DYNAMIC ANALYSIS TO STRATIFICATION, BY WHETHER INDIVIDUAL RETURNED TO SCHOOL
  
  
• BIBLIOGRAPHY