type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This article provides an overview of youth longitudinal surveys in Australia and introduces five papers from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth research forum ‘Are We There Yet? Youth Transitions in Australia’, held at the Australian National...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This article examines the importance of schools relative to individual characteristics in explaining Tertiary Entrance Rank scores, using Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth data. The school characteristics explain around 20 per cent of the variance in...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This article examines the occupational aspirations of 15-year olds. We first determine the drivers of occupational aspirations before comparing aspirations with actual employment outcomes a decade later. Whilst actual jobs held at age 25 years do not quite meet...</p>

type="main" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>The issue addressed by this article is whether there is an interaction between school ‘quality’ and students' socioeconomic status. That is, is a school that is of ‘high quality’ for high socioeconomic status students as effective for students from a...</p>

This paper exploits the remarkable increase in the average educational attainment of Australian youth during the 1980's to evaluate the role of education in labour market performance. Rather than focus on the impact of schooling on wages, however, we examine changes in the occupational...