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Employed and Unemployed Job Search : A Comparison of Choices and Outcomes among Youth
Holzer, Harry J. - 1986
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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Search Method Use by Unemployed Youth
Holzer, Harry J. - 1986
In this paper I investigate the use of different search methods by unemployed youth. I present a job search model which shows that search method choices should be related to their costs and expected productivities, as well as other factors such as nonwage income and wage offer distributions. I...
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Teenage Unemployment : Permanent Scars or Temporary Blemishes?
Ellwood, David T. - 1979
considerably lower wages. At the same time, the data provide no evidence that early unemployment sets off a vicious cycle of … recurrent unemployment. The reduced employment effects die off very quickly. What appears to persist are effects of lost work …
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Teenage Unemployment : What is the Problem?
Feldstein, Martin - 1979
conclusions: Unemployment is not a serious problem for the vast majority of teenage boys. Less than 5 percent of teenage boys are … do seek work, unemployment spells tend to be quite short; over half end within one month when these boys find work or … stop looking for work. Nevertheless, much of the total amount of unemployment is the result of quite long spells among a …
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High School Alcohol Use and Young Adult Labor Market Outcomes
Chatterji, Pinka - 2006
behaviors in 10th grade eliminates the unemployment effect, but strengthens the wage effect. As the latter is not explicable by …
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Adolescent Depression and Adult Labor Market Outcomes
Fletcher, Jason M. - 2012
This paper uses recently released data from a national longitudinal sample to present new evidence of the longer term effects of adolescent depression on labor market outcomes. Results suggest reductions in labor force attachment of approximately 5 percentage points and earnings reductions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460444
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In-Person Schooling and Youth Suicide : Evidence from School Calendars and Pandemic School Closures
Hansen, Benjamin; Sabia, Joseph J.; Schaller, Jessamyn - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This study explores the effect of in-person schooling on youth suicide. We document three key findings. First, using data from the National Vital Statistics System from 1990-2019, we document the historical association between teen suicides and the school calendar. We show that suicides among...
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Sex, Power, and Adolescence : Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Behaviors
Shah, Manisha; Seager, Jennifer; Montalvao, Joao; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Adolescents in Sub-Saharan Africa have some of the highest rates of intimate partner violence across the globe. This paper evaluates the impact of a randomized controlled trial that offers females a goal setting activity to improve their sexual and reproductive health outcomes and offers their...
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After the Epidemic : Recent Trends in Youth Violence in the United States
Cook, Philip J. - 2001
The epidemic of youth violence in the United States peaked in 1993 and has been followed by a rapid, sustained drop. In parallel with our earlier treatment (Cook and Laub 1998), we assess two types of explanation for this drop -- those that focus on 'cohort' effects (including the effects of...
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Effects of Price and Access Laws on Teenage Smoking Initiation : A National Longitudinal Analysis
Tauras, John A. - 2001
Over the past three decades a significant amount of economic research has established that increasing cigarette prices reduces cigarette smoking among both adults and adolescents. The consensus estimates for the price elasticity of adult demand from these studies fall in a narrow range of 0.3 to...
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