BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study investigated interest in research related to declining interest in family medicine by US medical school graduates. METHODS Twenty-four schools were selected for study based on American Academy of Family Physicians data on the number of their graduates entering family medicine. Data for all graduates in 1997, 1998, and 1999 were obtained from the Associatio...

This paper attempts to understand occupational mobility and wage growth of young workers in terms of basic labor market skills; cognitive, interpersonal, and motor skills. I emphasize that occupations are heterogeneous in formation and utilization of these skills. The model is structurally estimated using occupational task measures from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles and career history f...

This note develops a simple occupational choice model to examine three types of selection biases that may occur in empirically estimating the premium for uncertain wages. Individuals may select themselves into risky (wage-uncertain) jobs because they have (1) lower risk aversion, or (2) lower income risks, or (3) higher individual ability. We show that (1) gives no bias, (2) biases the OLS esti...

This paper makes a thorough analysis of the return to tertiary education and education-occupation matching within the transition economy compared to a developed economy. We show through the example of the Russian Federation that the increase in the return to education which happened in previous years does not indicate that the labour market is becoming closer to that of developed countries. We ...

This prospective study tested with 272 children a structural model of the network of sociocognitive influences that shape children's career aspirations and trajectories. Familial socioeconomic status is linked to children's career trajectories only indirectly through its effects on parents' perceived efficacy and academic aspirations. The impact of parental self-efficacy and aspirations on thei...