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 …

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

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 …