The YIEPP offered a minimum wage job, part-time during the school year and full-time during the summer, to 16-19-year-olds from low-income households who had not as yet graduated from high school and who were enrolled in school. Our finding of large positive employment effects for this...

1 Introduction -- I Theoretical Framework: Institutions and the Labor Market -- 2 A Comparison of Labor Market Equilibria Under Different Institutional Organizations -- II Observed Dislocation: International Comparisons -- 3 Wage Flexibility in the United States and Japan -- 4 The Impact of...

Presents quantitative content to the discussion of labor force transformation. Process of labor force adjustment; Major costs and risks involved in labor force adjustment for both the individual and society; Comparison of expected capital values of the highest and lowest investment alternatives...

This study examines the impacts of the General Equivalency Diploma (GED) certificate and other secondary and post-secondary credentials on labor market outcomes for women. It uses data from the NLSY Mother and Children file and the Washington State Family Income Study (FIS). Correcting for...