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In this paper we report results that suggest that carefully integrated and implemented vocational training and re-entry programs for youthful property offenders can reduce the rate at which such individuals are arrested after release. This result is important since most evaluations of programs...
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school students are participating in these programs. The first data source, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 …
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trials of summer youth employment programs in Chicago and Philadelphia to demonstrate how multiple experiments can help …; youth at higher risk of socially costly outcomes experience larger benefits. Identifying more interventions that combine …
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This paper presents evidence that young unemployed job seekers choose higher levels of search effort (as measured by numbers of methods used and time spent per method) and lower relative reservation wages than do comparable employed seekers. The unemployed also have higher probabilities of...
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In this paper I investigate the use of different search methods by unemployed youth. I present a job search model which …
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This paper examines the changing employment patterns for young men and women aged 16 to 24 over the 1970s and pays particular attention to the widening racial differences. Between 1970 and 1980 employment rates for both black men and women in this age range fell roughly 14 points relative to...
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employment would have been about 7 percent higher and among those 20 to 24, 2 percent higher. Employment among black youth 16 to … 24 would have been almost 6 percent higher than it was, as compared with somewhat less than 4 percent for white youth … elimination of the minimum attained. The weight of our evidence is inconsistent with a general increase in youth wage rates with …
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, the employment-to-population ratio of black youth (age 16-19) declined from 46.8 percent to 27 percent. The white teenage … black youth employment virtually ceased to exist. Black teenagers who were displaced from agricultural work were not …
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supply, to simulate the direct and indirect effects of the growth of the female labor force on job opportunities for youth …
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