effects of suicide thoughts and attempts on the probability of engaging in work or school. The richness of the data set allows …. The longitudinal nature of the data set also allows us to control for past suicidal thoughts and suicide attempts of the … identification strategies consistently indicate that both suicide thoughts and suicide attempts decrease the likelihood a young adult …

anticipate considerably lower earnings in subsequent years, even under the assumption of continuous employment after leaving …

region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment …

absolute terms, correcting for purchasing power. The relatively high employment rates of less educated German youth combined …-German difference in employment rates …

in employment and earnings. Adult men had no gains, and their earnings barely changed even in areas with unemployment … rates below 4 percent. Youths have higher earnings and employment in low crime states and poorer labor market outcomes in …

The employment and earnings effects of the minimum wage are estimated by parameterizing an hypothesized relationship … between underlying market employment and wage relationships versus observed wage and employment distributions in the presence … of a legislated minimum. If there had been no minimum during the 1973-78 period, we estimate that employment among out …

This paper empirically assesses the wage effects of the Job Corps program, one of the largest federally-funded job … is difficult to study because of sample selection, a pervasive problem in applied micro-econometric research. Wage rates … are only observed for those who are employed, and employment status itself may be affected by the training program. This …

productivity and less dependent on easily observable characteristics or credentials that predict productivity. Consider a wage … show that the wage coefficient on the unobservable productivity variable should rise with time in the labor market and the … wage coefficient on education should fall. We investigate this proposition using panel data on education, the AFQT test …

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, this study examines whether employment by high school … of specifications and suggest that employment increases net investments in human capital and facilitates the school- to …

NLS Youth Cohort. The endogeneity of drug use in a wage equation is considered and a 2SLS procedure is implemented. The …. The positive relationship between drug use and the wage does not diminish with age, but remains substantially positive. We …