school students are participating in these programs. The first data source, the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 …

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 …

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

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 …

, 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 …

supply, to simulate the direct and indirect effects of the growth of the female labor force on job opportunities for youth …

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 …