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This paper examines the changing employment patterns for young men and women aged 16 to 24 over the 1970s and pays particular attention to the widening racial differences. Between 1970 and 1980 employment rates for both black men and women in this age range fell roughly 14 points relative to...
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This paper presents evidence that young unemployed job seekers choose higher levels of search effort (as measured by numbers of methods used and time spent per method) and lower relative reservation wages than do comparable employed seekers. The unemployed also have higher probabilities of...
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In this paper I investigate the use of different search methods by unemployed youth. I present a job search model which …
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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 …
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has become an intrinsic part of the youth unemployment and poverty problem, rather than deviant behavior on the margin …
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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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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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We study two interventions for underemployed youth across five Ethiopian sites: a $300 grant to spur self …
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While previous time series studies have quite consistently found that the minimum wage reduces teenage employment, the extent of this reduction is much less certain. Moreover, because few previous studies report results of more than one specification, the causes of differences in estimated...
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By reducing the commitment made by employers, fixed-term contracts can help low-skilled youth find a first job. However …
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