Youth unemployment in Latin America is exceptionally high, as much as 50% among the poor. Vocational training may be … of a randomized training program for disadvantaged youth introduced in Colombia in 2005 on the employment and earnings of …

We examine changes in the characteristics of American youth between the late 1970s and the late 1990s, with a focus on …

supply, to simulate the direct and indirect effects of the growth of the female labor force on job opportunities for youth …

, 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 …

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 …

school students are participating in these programs. The first data source, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 …

family adult behaviors are strongly related to analogous youth behaviors. The links between the behavior of older family … church attendance. We also find that the behaviors of neighborhood peers appear to substantially affect youth behaviors in a …