This study presents a time series analysis of the youth unemployment problem stressing the cohort overcrowding effect … problem. First, reduced form unemployment equations are estimated for the disaggregated youth groups. The results indicate … that secular swings in female and white youth unemployment rates do track well with the cohort imbalance hypothesis …

The effects of minimum wage legislation on the employment and wage rates of youth are estimated using a new statistical … approach. We find that without the minimum, not only would the percent of out-of-school youth who are employed be 4 to 6 … percent higher than it is, but also that these youth would earn more. In particular, the expected hourly earnings of youth …

share of youth experiencing long-term unemployment …

has become an intrinsic part of the youth unemployment and poverty problem, rather than deviant behavior on the margin …

The authors begin with the hypothesis that parental contacts play a major role in finding jobs for youth. This … hypothesis is tested with a model of youth employment that includes characteristics of other family members in addition to a …'s ability to assist the youth in finding a job, including occupation, industry and education. The effects of such variables are …

data from the new National Longitudinal Survey youth cohort a model is developed to analyze the transition probabilities …

This paper examines what is known about the causes of the high and increasing levels of youth joblessness and related … problems in the youth labor market. Partly because of inconsistencies in reported rates of youth employment across surveys and … told, much of the relatively high rate of youth joblessness can be attributed to turnover and mobility patterns that are …

By reducing the commitment made by employers, fixed-term contracts can help low-skilled youth find a first job. However …

This paper reports the results of two randomized field experiments, each offering different populations of youth a … heterogeneity using observables. The method identifies a subgroup of youth with positive employment impacts, whose characteristics … differ from the disconnected youth served in most employment programs. We find that employment benefiters commit more …