Employment and Training Alternatives for Non‐College Women
Do Redistributive Policies Really Redistribute
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6330902 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sharon H Mastracci, Sharon Mastracci (0000-0003-1506-7585, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 585-601 |
| Publication date | 2003-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1541-0072.00044 |
| OpenAlex | W2019248578 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 7 |
Employment and training programs aimed at women and men without 4‐year college degrees address the needs of the majority of the working population. Noncollege women tend to hold lower‐paying jobs with fewer opportunities for advancement, compared with the opportunities noncollege men have. One type of policy seeks to increase the numbers of women in occupations where men hold most of the positions, or “nontraditional occupations for women” (NTOs). Since many NTOs require a college education, do such policies improve noncollege women's economic self‐efficacy? Is there a link between holding a nontraditional occupation and earning significantly higher wages? This study establishes that, indeed, these programs provide access to jobs that are linked to higher earnings. Such policies redistribute earnings opportunities to noncollege women successfully, and therefore improve the economic efficacy of noncollege women
Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Population · Sociology · Training (meteorology · Career Development and Diversity · Demography · Higher Education Research Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Finance
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
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| Citation span | 2006 - 2013 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |