Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Pathways to adulthood: Reversing the downward spiral of the youth labor market
  • Market and network theories of the high school-to-work transition
  • College for all: Do students understand what college demands?
  • Gatekeeping in an era of more open gates: High shcool counselors' views of their influence on students' college plans
  • Do employers need more educated youth?
  • Hiring in a Hobbesian World: Social infrastructure and employers' use of information
  • Ships passing in the night: The sociological foundations of economic transactions
  • Are noncognitive behaviors in school related to later outcomes?
  • Pathways into work: Short- and long-term effects of personal and institutional ties
  • Hidden links: Teachers' social construction of employer linkages
  • Theoretical implications: Using institutional linkages to signal and enhance youths' capabilities
  • Policy implications: Career paths for the forgotten half.