In this paper I investigate the use of different search methods by unemployed youth. I present a job search model which …

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 …

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 …

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 …

has become an intrinsic part of the youth unemployment and poverty problem, rather than deviant behavior on the margin …

interventions to reduce crime and dropout by changing the decision-making of economically disadvantaged youth. We study a program … called Becoming a Man (BAM), developed by the non-profit Youth Guidance, in two RCTs implemented in 2009-10 and 2013- 15. In … that the programs work by helping youth slow down and reflect on whether their automatic thoughts and behaviors are well …

Improving the long-term life outcomes of disadvantaged youth remains a top policy priority in the United States … results from a large randomized controlled trial of an intervention for disadvantaged male youth grades 7-10 from high … behavioral therapy (CBT). We randomly assigned 2,740 youth to programming or to a control group; about half those offered …

data from the new National Longitudinal Survey youth cohort a model is developed to analyze the transition probabilities …