. The unemployed also have higher probabilities of gaining new employment, which reflect higher probabilities of receiving …

In this paper I investigate the use of different search methods by unemployed youth. I present a job search model which … effects on employment outcomes. These results show that the most frequently used search methods, which are friends and …, they are chosen in a manner which generates positive average effects on employment outcomes for those who use them. The …

recurrent unemployment. The reduced employment effects die off very quickly. What appears to persist are effects of lost work … employment rates for a cohort of young men as they age, but points out that those persons with poor employment records early have … comparatively poor records later. In order to asses the extent to which differences in later employment and wages are causally …

This nontechnical paper was prepared as a background study for the NBER Conference on Youth Joblessness and Employment … 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 …

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 … diverging racial employment patterns can be "explained" by the variables we examine. For young men the most important forces …

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 …The authors begin with the hypothesis that parental contacts play a major role in finding jobs for youth. This …

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 …

. Much of youth non-employment is not picked up in the official unemployment statistics, because many young people give up … employment opportunities is the crux of the problem for those most seriously affected by youth unemployment …This paper analyzes the dynamics of youth unemployment. Three broad conclusions emerge. First, the problem of youth …

has become an intrinsic part of the youth unemployment and poverty problem, rather than deviant behavior on the margin …. Limited evidence on the returns to crime suggest that with the decline in earnings and employment for less educated young men …

We conduct a randomized evaluation of two job-search support programs for urban youth in Ethiopia. One group of treated … interventions are designed to lower spatial and informational barriers to employment. We find that both treatments significantly … employment outcomes, and the job application workshop alleviates informational asymmetries by helping workers to signal their …