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The Impact of Unions on the Labor Market for White and Minority Youth
Holzer, Harry J. - 2021
This paper presents estimates of the effects of unions on the wages of young black and white males who are both union and nonunion workers. It also presents estimates of union effects on employment for these groups, as well as their union membership rates. While unions have a very substantial,...
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Training Disadvantaged Youth in Latin America : Evidence from a Randomized Trial
Attanasio, Orazio - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759391
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State Merit Aid Programs and Youth Labor Market Attachment
Frisvold, David E. - 2018
This paper examines the impact of state merit-aid programs on the labor market attachment of high school-aged youths. The labor force participation rate of teenagers has fallen substantially in recent decades, coinciding with the introduction of merit-aid programs. These programs reduce the...
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Crime and the Employment of Disadvantaged Youths
Freeman, Richard B. - 2021
has become an intrinsic part of the youth unemployment and poverty problem, rather than deviant behavior on the margin …
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Family Effects in Youth Employment
Rees, Albert; Gray, Wayne B. - 2021
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 …
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Experimental Assessment of the Effect of Vocational Training on Youthful Property Offenders
Lattimore, Pamela K.; Witte, Anne; Baker, Joanna R. - 2021
In this paper we report results that suggest that carefully integrated and implemented vocational training and re-entry programs for youthful property offenders can reduce the rate at which such individuals are arrested after release. This result is important since most evaluations of programs...
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Time Series Changes in Youth Joblessness
Wachter, Michael L.; Kim, Choongsoo - 2021
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 …
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Tenure Choice of American Youth
Haurin, Donald R.; Hendershott, Patric H.; Kim, Dongwook - 2021
While there seems to be no end to estimates of housing tenure determinants, prior studies have not accounted for the simultaneity of tenure choice with household formation, labor supply or the marriage decision. Our estimates are superior to those in the literature both because we address these...
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Changes in the Characteristics of American Youth : Implications for Adult Outcomes
Altonji, Joseph G.; Bharadwaj, Prashant; Lange, Fabian - 2021
We examine changes in the characteristics of American youth between the late 1970s and the late 1990s, with a focus on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013224425
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Labor Market Competition Among Youths, White Women, and Others
Grant, James H.; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2021
supply, to simulate the direct and indirect effects of the growth of the female labor force on job opportunities for youth …
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