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The essays in this volume provide a comprehensive review of the system of occupational training and education in the United States, its performance, and the labor market environment in which it operates. It is addressed to a number of audiences. For educators the significance of the labor market as it affects schools is highlighted. For social scientists the importance of different disciplinary perspectives in assessing educational performance is demonstrated. For policymakers and planners these essays document the persistent shortcomings of this system, identify new developments within the system, and help to pinpoint the key links to jobs that need to be forged if overall performance is to be improved.
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Peter B. Doeringer and Michael J. Piore, Internal labor markets and manpower analysis ( Lexington, Mass.: Heath, 1971 ).
See George Stigler, “Information in the Labor Market,” Journal of Political Economy 70 (October 1962):94–105; Michael Spence, “Job Market Signalling,” Quarterly Journal of Economics 87, no. 3 (August 1973): 355–74.
See Sumner H. Slichter, James J. Healy, and E. Robert Livernash, The Impact of Collective Bargaining on Management ( Washington, D.C.: Brookings, 1960 ).
For a discussion of labor market queues, see Lester C. Thurow, Generating Inequality ( New York: Basic Books, 1975 ), Chapter 4.
See Paul Osterman, Getting Started: The Youth Labor Market ( Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1980 ).
See, for example, John T. Grasso, The Contribution of Vocational Education Training and Work Experience to the Early Career Achievement of Young Men (Columbus: Center for Human Resource Research, Ohio State University, 1975 ).
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Doeringer, P.B. (1981). Occupational Education and Training for the 1980s. In: Doeringer, P.B., Vermeulen, B. (eds) Jobs and Trainings in the 1980s. Boston Studies in Applied Economics, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-8159-1_1
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