Bureau of Labor Statistics. 1993. Education and the work histories of young adults. Monthly Labor Review (April): 11-20.

This article reviews data collected by the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to establish correlations between education and the youth labor market. This study breaks down the employment by race, education and gender and considers employment as jobs held and weeks worked. It also attempts to establish reasons for the patterns it finds. The largest difference found was between female high school dropouts and female college graduates.

This is a good article and will be helpful in writing my paper. The strengths of this article are the data that was used and the theories it gives to explain the data. The weaknesses, as far as my research is concerned, are the breakdowns of gender and race (which I won’t be looking at) and that the time period evaluated is only until 1990; I would like to examine more recent data.