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Robert M Hauser - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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socioeconomic status and health at midlife a comparison of Educational attainment with occupation based indicators
Annals of Epidemiology, 2001Co-Authors: Richard A Miech, Robert M HauserAbstract:Abstract PURPOSE: Educational attainment is a widely used indicator of socioeconomic status (SES) in health studies. However, little is known about its relationship to health relative to measures of Occupational standing. This study directly compared Education with an array of Occupational measures—including social class—in relation to health. METHODS: The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study collected self-reported health data from a sample of 6875 Wisconsin high school graduates aged 53–54 in 1992–1993. The analysis regressed overall health, physical symptoms, and medical conditions on socioeconomic indicators, using logistic regression. RESULTS: Associations of health outcomes with Occupational standing net of Educational attainment are mainly weak or non-existent. “Occupational Education” is the only indicator to have a strong association with health net of Education in analyses of both men and women. CONCLUSIONS: While occupation is sometimes an important mechanism linking Education and health, control for the overall relation between SES and health may not require measures of Occupational standing when Educational attainment is measured well. However, the present findings are limited to non-Hispanic white high school graduates from Wisconsin at ages 53–54.
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choosing a measure of Occupational standing how useful are composite measures in analyses of gender inequality in Occupational attainment
Sociological Methods & Research, 1998Co-Authors: John Robert Warren, Jennifer Sheridan, Robert M HauserAbstract:Does the choice of measure of Occupational standing affect inferences about gender differences in Occupational attainment? The authors use data from the 1994 General Social Survey and the 1986-1988 Survey of Income and Program Participation to analyze the role of gender in the process of Occupational attainment 15 times, each time using a different measure of Occupational standing. Composite indexes of Occupational standing are too heterogeneous to be useful in studies of Occupational stratification, especially studies of gender differences. Women often have higher levels of Education than men in the same occupation, while the opposite is true for earnings. Thus, using a composite index, the relative standing of men's and women's occupations is an arbitrary function of the weights given to Occupational Education and earnings. It is preferable to index occupations separately by each of their socioeconomic characteristics, or to use other, more direct measures of Occupational characteristics.
Richard A Miech - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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socioeconomic status and health at midlife a comparison of Educational attainment with occupation based indicators
Annals of Epidemiology, 2001Co-Authors: Richard A Miech, Robert M HauserAbstract:Abstract PURPOSE: Educational attainment is a widely used indicator of socioeconomic status (SES) in health studies. However, little is known about its relationship to health relative to measures of Occupational standing. This study directly compared Education with an array of Occupational measures—including social class—in relation to health. METHODS: The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study collected self-reported health data from a sample of 6875 Wisconsin high school graduates aged 53–54 in 1992–1993. The analysis regressed overall health, physical symptoms, and medical conditions on socioeconomic indicators, using logistic regression. RESULTS: Associations of health outcomes with Occupational standing net of Educational attainment are mainly weak or non-existent. “Occupational Education” is the only indicator to have a strong association with health net of Education in analyses of both men and women. CONCLUSIONS: While occupation is sometimes an important mechanism linking Education and health, control for the overall relation between SES and health may not require measures of Occupational standing when Educational attainment is measured well. However, the present findings are limited to non-Hispanic white high school graduates from Wisconsin at ages 53–54.
John Robert Warren - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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choosing a measure of Occupational standing how useful are composite measures in analyses of gender inequality in Occupational attainment
Sociological Methods & Research, 1998Co-Authors: John Robert Warren, Jennifer Sheridan, Robert M HauserAbstract:Does the choice of measure of Occupational standing affect inferences about gender differences in Occupational attainment? The authors use data from the 1994 General Social Survey and the 1986-1988 Survey of Income and Program Participation to analyze the role of gender in the process of Occupational attainment 15 times, each time using a different measure of Occupational standing. Composite indexes of Occupational standing are too heterogeneous to be useful in studies of Occupational stratification, especially studies of gender differences. Women often have higher levels of Education than men in the same occupation, while the opposite is true for earnings. Thus, using a composite index, the relative standing of men's and women's occupations is an arbitrary function of the weights given to Occupational Education and earnings. It is preferable to index occupations separately by each of their socioeconomic characteristics, or to use other, more direct measures of Occupational characteristics.
Ryan S Wells - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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evolving statewide transfer policies persistent efforts in tension with workforce development among massachusetts community colleges
Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2014Co-Authors: Daniel De La Torre, Ryan S WellsAbstract:Since their inception, community colleges have included the transfer function as a central mission, yet arguments have been made contending that two-year/community colleges have systematically diverted students toward Occupational Education and served to “cool out” students’ expectations for bachelor’s degrees. In the 21 st century, community colleges continue to contend with multiple missions and identities. The diversionary discourse of cooling out continues to carry a lot of weight, especially when viewed from a workforce-development perspective stressing short-term employability as the primary community college objective. The two-fold purpose of this study focuses on the academic transfer mission of community colleges in a context where this mission has been in tension with, and often seemingly dominated by, the vocational mission. We utilize document and thematic analysis to identify the elements of formal transfer and articulation policies in the United States leading into the 21 st century. Using these findings as a framework for comparison, we then draw on Massachusetts as a case study to explore how transfer and articulation policies have resembled and/or diverged from the components identified. We present implications in light of transfer policy development in Massachusetts, expanding discussion to stress the importance of common articulation guidelines within state-determined higher Education priorities.
Jennifer Sheridan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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choosing a measure of Occupational standing how useful are composite measures in analyses of gender inequality in Occupational attainment
Sociological Methods & Research, 1998Co-Authors: John Robert Warren, Jennifer Sheridan, Robert M HauserAbstract:Does the choice of measure of Occupational standing affect inferences about gender differences in Occupational attainment? The authors use data from the 1994 General Social Survey and the 1986-1988 Survey of Income and Program Participation to analyze the role of gender in the process of Occupational attainment 15 times, each time using a different measure of Occupational standing. Composite indexes of Occupational standing are too heterogeneous to be useful in studies of Occupational stratification, especially studies of gender differences. Women often have higher levels of Education than men in the same occupation, while the opposite is true for earnings. Thus, using a composite index, the relative standing of men's and women's occupations is an arbitrary function of the weights given to Occupational Education and earnings. It is preferable to index occupations separately by each of their socioeconomic characteristics, or to use other, more direct measures of Occupational characteristics.
