absolute terms, correcting for purchasing power. The relatively high employment rates of less educated German youth combined …-German difference in employment rates …

problems in the youth labor market. Partly because of inconsistencies in reported rates of youth employment across surveys and … employment over time and among areas. For groups facing the most severe joblessness problems, however, the difficulty due to lack … significantly to the stable ratio of employment to population among young whites. The causes of the downward trend in youth …

This paper presents an analysis of the determinants of re-employment probabilities for young workers in the U.S. Using … from nonemployment to employment. The key factors examined include personal characteristics, unemployment income, local … duration of spells of nonemployment and there appears to be strong evidence of negative duration dependence in re-employment …

evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling … do all this we find that culture still matters for women employment rates and for hours worked. However, policies and … appear to be important in explaining the employment rate of the young. In the case of women employment rates, the policy …

While previous time series studies have quite consistently found that the minimum wage reduces teenage employment, the … specification choices. In addition to providing estimates of the effect of minimum wage increases on aggregate employment and …

. Limited evidence on the returns to crime suggest that with the decline in earnings and employment for less educated young men …

hypothesis is tested with a model of youth employment that includes characteristics of other family members in addition to a … generally not significant and do not support the initial hypothesis. However, the employment probability of a youth is …

unemployment are developed by treating school enrollment and military service as equivalent to employment. In addition, several … employment-to-population ratio measures are explored. Third, equations for employment, unemployment, schooling and a residual … puzzling results. Although black male unemployment rates are growing, and employment rates are declining, relative wages and …