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 …

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 …

This paper analyzes the dynamics of youth unemployment. Three broad conclusions emerge. First, the problem of youth … joblessness extends beyond the unemployed. We find that over one-half of youth unemployment spells end in labor force withdrawal …. Much of youth non-employment is not picked up in the official unemployment statistics, because many young people give up …

In this paper I investigate the use of different search methods by unemployed youth. I present a job search model which …

This paper examines gender differences in labor market outcomes for hard-to-employ youth in the US and West Germany … relative to more highly educated youth in their own country, and also fare much worse than less educated German youth in … absolute terms, correcting for purchasing power. The relatively high employment rates of less educated German youth combined …