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Crime and the Employment of Disadvantaged Youths

Freeman, Richard B. - 1991

entire decade. The magnitudes of incarceration, probation, and parole among black dropouts, in particular, suggest that crime …. Limited evidence on the returns to crime suggest that with the decline in earnings and employment for less educated young men …, crime offers an increasingly attractive alternative …

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The Intergenerational Effects of Parental Incarceration

Dobbie, Will - 2018

leads to significant increases in teen crime and pregnancy and a significant decrease in early-life employment. The effects … are concentrated among children from the most disadvantaged families, where teen crime increases by 18 percentage points …

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The Youth Labor Market in the 80s : Determinants of Re-Employment Probabilities for Young Men and Women

Lynch, Lisa M. - 1986

This paper presents an analysis of the determinants of re-employment probabilities for young workers in the U.S. Using data from the new National Longitudinal Survey youth cohort a model is developed to analyze the transition probabilities from nonemployment to employment. The key factors...

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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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Informal Job Search and Black Youth Unemployment

Holzer, Harry J. - 1986

In this paper I analyze how young black and white unemployed jobseekers use various methods of search, and the employment outcomes which result from their use.The focus is on distinguishing informal search methods (i.e.,friends and relatives or direct application without referral) from more...

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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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On the Rationality of Black Youth Unemployment

Holzer, Harry J. - 1984

In this paper I provide some evidence on the question of whether the behavior of unemployed young blacks, whose reservation wages are relatively high and whose jobless spells are very lengthy, reflect rational maximizing choices. To do this, I use a simple income-maximizing job search model to...

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Black Youth Nonemployment : Duration and Job Search

Holzer, Harry J. - 1984

This paper analyzes reservation wages and durations of nonemployment for young blacks and whites. Selfreported reservation wages are compared for blacks and whites before and after controlling for indicators of labor demand such as received wages, weeks worked, or other personal characterlstics....

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The Spatial Mismatch Hypothesis : Are There Teenage Jobs Missing in the Ghetto?

Ellwood, David T. - 1983

This paper examines the hypothesis that the extraordinarily highrates of unemployment among black youth can be linked to a geographic mismatch between the residences of black youth and the jobs they might occupy. Chicago's labor market is examined in detail. The paper reports that black youth do...

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Youth Employment in the Seventies : The Changing Circumstances of Young Adults

Ellwood, David T. - 1983

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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