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The Impact of Unions on the Labor Market for White and Minority Youth

Holzer, Harry J. - 1981

This paper presents estimates of the effects of unions on the wages of young black and white males who are both union and nonunion workers. It also presents estimates of union effects on employment for these groups, as well as their union membership rates. While unions have a very substantial,...

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Is High School Employment Consumption or Investment?

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 1995

students improves or worsens economic attainment 6 to 9 years after the scheduled date of high school graduation. There is no …-work transition, particularly towards the end of high school and for students not continuing on to college …

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Independent Living and Homeownership : An Analysis of Australian Youth

Bourassa, Steven C. - 1993

This study extends recent work that developed and tested economic models of the joint decisions of household formation and homeownership. The cost of shelter is an important determinant of whether youth live independently (apart from parents and other nonrelated adults), and the cost of...

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The Black youth employment crisis

Freeman, Richard B. (ed.); Holzer, Harry J. (contributor) - 1986

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Youth employment and joblessness in advanced countries

Blanchflower, David G. (contributor); … - 2000

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An Introduction to School-To-Work Programs in the NLSY97 : How Prevalent are They, and Which Youths do They Serve?

Neumark, David - 2000

school students are participating in these programs. The first data source, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 … (NLSY97), provides information directly form students on whether they participated in these programs. The second source, the …. Findings from the NLSY97 show that a fair number of high school students participate in school-to-work programs, with about 38 …

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The Impact of Young Workers on the Aggregate Labor Market

Shimer, Robert - 1999

This paper estimates the response of the unemployment rate and labor force participation rate to exogenous variation in the youth share of the working age population, using cross-state variation in lagged birth rates as an instrumental variable. A one percent increase in the youth share reduces...

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A Cross-National Analysis of the Effects of Minimum Wages on Youth Employment

Neumark, David - 1999

We estimate the employment effects of changes in national minimum wages using a pooled cross-section time-series data set comprising sixteen OECD countries for the period 1975-1997. We pay particular attention to the impact of cross-country differences in minimum wage systems and in other labor...

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Area Economic Conditions and the Labor Market Outcomes of Young Men in the 1990s Expansion

Freeman, Richard B. - 1999

The current expansion has shattered the length of the previous longest peace-time boom and brought unemployment rates below four percent in 44 percent of metropolitan areas. We estimate the expansion's impact on the labor market outcomes of less-educated men. We find that young men, especially...

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Computerization, Obsolescence, and the Length of Working Life

Hudomiet, Peter; Willis, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

This paper analyzes how computerization affected the labor market outcomes of older workers between 1984 and 2017. Using the computerization supplements of the Current Population Survey (CPS) we show that different occupations were computerized at different times, older workers tended to start...

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