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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Res. 2016 Jan 14;57:233–252. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2015.12.014

Table 3.

Educational Attainment Between-Group, Within-Year Pairwise Comparisons

Model 1:
Weekly Hours
Worked
Model 2:
Biweekly Earnings
Model 3:
Employment
Status
Model 4:
Subjective Career
Acquisition
Model 5:
Job Security
2005
  Vo-tech vs. HS or less 4.041 (2.226) 129.62 (127.17) 0.048* (0.020) 0.010 (0.106) 0.135 (0.119)
  Associate’s vs. HS or less 4.581 (2.602) 378.80* (163.83) 0.051* (0.020) 0.201 (0.116) 0.055 (0.135)
  Some college vs. HS or less 1.210 (1.957) 147.75 (113.19) 0.025 (0.021) 0.040 (0.094) 0.188 (0.107)
  Bachelor’s vs. HS or less 5.771** (1.966) 812.68*** (146.22) 0.049* (0.020) 0.278** (0.088) −0.011 (0.109)
  Associate’s vs. Vo-tech 0.540 (2.776) 249.18 (172.21) 0.003 (0.006) 0.191 (0.124) −0.080 (0.138)
  Some College vs. Vo-tech −2.831 (2.186) 18.13 (125.77) −0.023* (0.012) 0.031 (0.104) 0.053 (0.112)
  Bachelor’s vs. Vo-tech 1.730 (2.185) 683.06*** (156.98) 0.001 (0.005) 0.269** (0.098) −0.146 (0.114)
  Some College vs. Associate’s −3.371 (2.536) −231.05 (159.05) −0.026* (0.012) −0.161 (0.112) 0.133 (0.126)
  Bachelor’s vs. Associate’s 1.190 (2.508) 433.88* (182.06) −0.002 (0.005) 0.078 (0.104) −0.067 (0.127)
  Bachelor’s vs. Some College 4.561* (1.821) 664.93*** (138.43) 0.024* (0.011) 0.238** (0.080) −0.200 (0.097)
2007
  Vo-tech vs. HS or less 4.866* (2.306) 323.59* (147.41) 0.038 (0.027) 0.159 (0.112) 0.334** (0.123)
  Associate’s vs. HS or less 7.979*** (2.461) 287.98 (151.30) 0.062* (0.025) 0.209 (0.113) 0.382** (0.128)
  Some college vs. HS or less 2.569 (2.041) 158.22 (121.59) 0.027 (0.027) 0.129 (0.098) 0.353*** (0.110)
  Bachelor’s vs. HS or less 7.600*** (1.985) 760.45*** (145.87) 0.050* (0.025) 0.248** (0.093) 0.217* (0.109)
  Associate’s vs. Vo-tech 3.113 (2.686) −35.60 (174.74) 0.024 (0.016) 0.050 (0.123) 0.048 (0.136)
  Some College vs. Vo-tech −2.297 (2.309) −165.37 (149.69) −0.011 (0.021) −0.031 (0.110) 0.019 (0.119)
  Bachelor’s vs. Vo-tech 2.734 (2.252) 436.87* (171.92) 0.012 (0.016) 0.089 (0.105) −0.117 (0.119)
  Some College vs. Associate’s −5.410* (2.432) −129.77 (151.22) −0.035* (0.017) −0.081 (0.109) −0.030 (0.123)
  Bachelor’s vs. Associate’s −0.378 (2.346) 472.47** (168.82) −0.012 (0.008) 0.039 (0.102) −0.166 (0.120)
  Bachelor’s vs. Some College 5.031** (1.909) 602.24*** (144.86) 0.023 (0.017) 0.120 (0.087) −0.136 (0.102)
2009
  Vo-tech vs. HS or less −1.828 (2.503) 115.94 (125.86) −0.133 (0.090) −0.018 (0.102) −0.039 (0.146)
  Associate’s vs. HS or less 6.323* (2.552) 414.14** (140.36) 0.081 (0.045) 0.292** (0.114) −0.041 (0.135)
  Some college vs. HS or less 3.096 (2.076) 301.64** (106.86) 0.056 (0.044) 0.060 (0.089) 0.022 (0.114)
  Bachelor’s vs. HS or less 7.731*** (2.041) 861.70*** (130.96) 0.090* (0.042) 0.299*** (0.090) −0.007 (0.114)
  Associate’s vs. Vo-tech 8.151** (2.859) 298.20 (159.37) 0.214* (0.087) 0.310* (0.124) −0.002 (0.156)
  Some College vs. Vo-tech 4.925* (2.449) 185.70 (130.98) 0.189* (0.086) 0.077 (0.101) 0.061 (0.139)
  Bachelor’s vs. Vo-tech 9.560*** (2.401) 745.77*** (151.39) 0.222** (0.086) 0.316** (0.102) 0.032 (0.139)
  Some College vs. Associate’s −3.226 (2.468) −112.50 (142.73) −0.025 (0.031) −0.233* (0.112) 0.063 (0.126)
  Bachelor’s vs. Associate’s 1.408 (2.405) 447.57** (161.23) 0.009 (0.025) 0.006 (0.112) 0.034 (0.124)
  Bachelor’s vs. Some College 4.635* (1.886) 560.06*** (133.81) 0.034 (0.025) 0.239** (0.087) −0.029 (0.101)
2011
  Vo-tech vs. HS or less −1.504 (2.524) 132.43 (111.44) 0.014 (0.076) 0.093 (0.104) 0.230 (0.142)
  Associate’s vs. HS or less 5.386* (2.592) 450.71*** (131.56) 0.123* (0.055) 0.475*** (0.105) 0.149 (0.138)
  Some college vs. HS or less −0.494 (2.104) 283.07** (99.23) −0.022 (0.069) 0.053 (0.081) 0.276* (0.120)
  Bachelor’s vs. HS or less 6.541** (2.080) 944.66*** (123.96) 0.119* (0.054) 0.346*** (0.087) 0.183 (0.119)
  Associate’s vs. Vo-tech 6.890* (2.859) 318.28* (144.22) 0.109 (0.063) 0.382** (0.123) −0.081 (0.149)
  Some College vs. Vo-tech 1.010 (2.432) 150.65 (115.39) −0.036 (0.076) −0.040 (0.104) 0.046 (0.133)
  Bachelor’s vs. Vo-tech 8.045*** (2.396) 812.23*** (137.78) 0.105 (0.062) 0.254* (0.109) −0.047 (0.132)
  Some College vs. Associate’s −5.880* (2.465) −167.64 (132.92) −0.145** (0.053) −0.421*** (0.102) 0.127 (0.126)
  Bachelor’s vs. Associate’s 1.155 (2.409) 493.95** (151.73) −0.004 (0.023) −0.128 (0.106) 0.034 (0.123)
  Bachelor’s vs. Some College 7.035*** (1.871) 661.58*** (125.70) 0.140** (0.052) 0.293*** (0.083) −0.093 (0.103)