The National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) are a set of surveys designed to gather information at multiple points in time on the labor market activities and other significant life events of several groups of men and women. For more than 4 decades, NLS data have served as an important tool for economists, sociologists, and other researchers. On This PageNLS General Overviews
NLS News ReleasesAmerica's Youth at 21: School Enrollment, Training and Employment Transitions between ages 20 and 21 [NLSY97 Round 10]
January 23, 2009
At age 21, women are more likely to be enrolled in college
than men. Among 21-year-olds not enrolled in college, men
are more likely than women to be employed in a civilian
job or serving in the military.
More... Number of Jobs, Labor Market Experience, and Earnings Growth: Results From A Longitudinal Survey
June 27, 2008
The average person born in the later years of the baby boom
held 10.8 jobs from ages 18 to 42, with most of these jobs
held from ages 18 to 27. Although job duration tends to be
longer the older a worker is when starting the job, they
continued to have large numbers of short-duration jobs as
they approached middle age.
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