ERIC Number: ED129494
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1976-May
Pages: 28
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Rural People in Skilled Industrial Work: Experience of Graduates of a Manpower Training Program in Appalachia. Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station 560, May 1976.
Brown, David W.; Cooper, Samuel T.
Using data from a follow-up survey of 472 graduates of the Oak Ridge Training and Technology (TAT) Program, this 1972 study compared the post-training job experiences and earnings of rural and urban graduates; ascertained how the graduates' post-training wage rates were related to such characteristics as educational background, prior work experience, and job mobility; and compared the problems encountered by the rural and urban graduates in adjusting to industrial work settings and new locations. Descriptive profiles of both groups provided a basis for general comparison of their background characteristics, post-training work histories, earnings, and adjustment problems. Multiple regression was used to standardize the basis for comparing the groups' wages, and to estimate the relationships between wages and several personal characteristics. Independent variables were: rural/urban origin, sex, race, marital status, age, education, employment status just prior to TAT training, training specialty, extent that the job held was related to training, year of TAT training, and number of jobs held since TAT training. Findings included: the average wage per hour was $3.49 for the rural graduates and $3.29 for the urban; relocation, either to take better jobs or to be nearer their jobs, was more common among the rural graduates; and job terminations or layoffs were less frequent among the rural graduates. (NQ)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Comparative Analysis, Educational Background, Employment Experience, Followup Studies, Graduate Surveys, Participant Characteristics, Relocation, Rural Population, Rural Urban Differences, Socioeconomic Influences, Trade and Industrial Education, Vocational Adjustment, Wages
Publication Type: Reports - Research
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Sponsor: Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC.
Authoring Institution: Tennessee Univ., Knoxville. Agricultural Experiment Station.
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