The job training experiences of black and white women, 1970–1991

This study uses data from the National Longitudinal Study of Labor Market Experience, Young Women's Cohort, to examine job training characteristics and sociodemographic factors that had a significant impact on the earning potential of women throughout the 1970s and 1980s. Specifically, we investigated the job training patterns of women, by race, across the two decades; the influence of family status on training opportunities; the effects of demographic characteristics as well as training attributes on completion rates of women, by race; and the contribution of human capital on income levels. Most significant is the finding that as the cohort of women matured, the cumulative intensity of job training began to account for some variance in income, albeit marginal.