the minimum wage on teenage unemployment, or its relative impact on black and white teenagers. The purpose of this paper … unemployment rates of teenagers, we explore several related issues: the relative importance of changing the level and coverage of …

-employment probability. Living in an area with high local unemployment reduces re-employment chances as does being in a long spell of non …-employment. However, when we allow for an interaction between the length of time of a jobless spell and the local unemployment rate we … find the interaction term is positive. In other words, while workers appear to be scarred by a long spell of unemployment …