Working and Growing Up in America /

Working and Growing Up in America / / Jeylan T. Mortimer.

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Should teenagers have jobs while they're in high school? Doesn't working distract them from schoolwork, cause long-term problem behaviors, and precipitate a "precocious" transition to adulthood? This report from a remarkable longitudinal study of 1,000 students, followed from the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
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Mortimer, Jeylan T.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2003
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Adolescent Lives ; 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1. SHOULD ADOLESCENTS WORK?
  • 2. THE YOUTH DEVELOPMENT STUDY
  • 3. TIME ALLOCATION AND QUALITY OF WORK
  • 4. THE ECOLOGY OF YOUTH WORK
  • 5. PRECURSORS OF INVESTMENT IN WORK
  • 6. WORKING AND ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT
  • 7. THE TRANSITION TO ADULTHOOD
  • 8. WORKING AND BECOMING ADULT
  • APPENDIX. Panel Selection
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX

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