TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sabates, R
A1  - Gutman, LM
A1  - Schoon, I
PB  - Society for Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
Y1  - 2017/07/27/
IS  - 3
TI  - Is there a wage penalty associated to degree of indecision in career aspirations: Evidence from the BCS70
KW  - career indecision; career aspirations; earnings; 1970 British Cohort; Britain
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.14301/llcs.v8i3.470
SP  - 290
AV  - public
EP  - 306
JF  - Longitudinal and Life Course Studies
SN  - 1757-9597
N1  - This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher?s terms and conditions.
ID  - discovery1566951
VL  - 8
N2  - In this longitudinal study, we test whether varying degrees of indecision about future career choices at age 16 have long-term economic consequences in adulthood, taking into account potential gender differences. Findings from a British cohort born in 1970 indicate that young people who were completely undecided about job choices did experience a wage penalty at age 34 compared to young people who were certain about their job aspirations. This association was significant even after controlling for family socioeconomic status, parental expectations and academic ability at age 16.  However, the wage penalty was mediated by educational attainment and part-time employment at age 34.  Not being entirely certain about one?s future profession by age 16 seems to be part of a career decision making process which does not necessarily incur a wage penalty for most young people, especially if it involves the acquisition of education qualifications
ER  -