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school students are participating in these programs. The first data source, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 …
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trials of summer youth employment programs in Chicago and Philadelphia to demonstrate how multiple experiments can help …; youth at higher risk of socially costly outcomes experience larger benefits. Identifying more interventions that combine …
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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 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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employment would have been about 7 percent higher and among those 20 to 24, 2 percent higher. Employment among black youth 16 to … 24 would have been almost 6 percent higher than it was, as compared with somewhat less than 4 percent for white youth … elimination of the minimum attained. The weight of our evidence is inconsistent with a general increase in youth wage rates with …
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, the employment-to-population ratio of black youth (age 16-19) declined from 46.8 percent to 27 percent. The white teenage … black youth employment virtually ceased to exist. Black teenagers who were displaced from agricultural work were not …
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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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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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