Perceived Local Job Prospects and School Connectedness in a Struggling Rural Economy: A Life-Course Perspective

Autor/inn/en	Van Gundy, Karen T.; Rebellon, Cesar J.; Jaffee, Eleanor M.; Stracuzzi, Nena F.; Sharp, Erin Hiley; Tucker, Corinna Jenkins
Titel	Perceived Local Job Prospects and School Connectedness in a Struggling Rural Economy: A Life-Course Perspective
Quelle	In: Peabody Journal of Education, 91 (2016) 2, S.224-245 (22 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0161-956X
DOI	10.1080/0161956X.2016.1151748
Schlagwörter	Employment Opportunities; Grade 7; Grade 9; Rural Youth; Public Schools; Rural Schools; Unemployment; Age Differences; Student School Relationship; Longitudinal Studies; Middle School Students; High School Students; Elementary School Students; Grade 12 + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Berufschance; Beschäftigungschance; School year 07; 7. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 07; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; Rural area; Rural areas; Youth; Ländlicher Raum; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Public school; Öffentliche Schule; School; Schools; Schule; Schulen; Arbeitslosigkeit; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Schüler-Lehrer-Beziehung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; School year 12; 12. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 12
Abstract	Late in first decade of the 2000s, the closing of pulp and paper mills in the rural northeastern United States contributed to economic decline in the region and to rising concerns about population decline due to out-migration among local emerging adults in search of occupational or educational opportunities. In this context, and drawing on a life-course framework, the present study used four waves of panel data from the population of 7th- and 11th-grade public school students in a rural northeastern U.S. county to explore whether the county unemployment rate was related to perceived local job prospects; school connectedness was related to subsequent perceived job prospects; and the effects of county unemployment and school connectedness on perceived local job prospects varied by age cohort. Initially, changes in respondents' perceptions about local job prospects paralleled shifts in local unemployment similarly for both cohorts; yet after the older cohort respondents had completed high school, their perceived local job prospects fell sharply, while perceptions among the younger cohort respondents, who were still in high school, remained stable. Among the older cohort respondents only, school connectedness was associated with subsequent positive perceptions about local job prospects net of relevant controls. Same-age cohort comparisons, evaluated when each cohort was in 12th-grade, showed no differences in the short-term effects of school connectedness on perceived local job prospects, despite variations in the age-linked timing of the most dramatic rise in unemployment during the study. The results highlight the lasting importance of school connectedness for teens raised in struggling rural economies. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01