Life-cycle Jobs, Race, and the Youth Labor Market
Author: Valerie Kincade Oppenheimer
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 134
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Author: Valerie Kincade Oppenheimer
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 134
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael A. Stoll
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-01-04
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1317733436
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe purpose of this book is to examine whether physical distance from jobs or racial discrimination in youth labor markets explains a greater part of minority youth’s employment problems. First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Lynn S. Chancer
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0190685891
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile overall unemployment has declined, the unemployment rate remains nearly twice as high for young people 16 to 19 years of age and nearly three times as high for those aged 20 to 24. Rates of unemployment and underemployment are nearly two to three times higher for Black and Latino youth. In Youth, Jobs, and the Future, Lynn S. Chancer, Mart n S nchez-Jankowski, and Christine Trost have gathered a cast of well-known interdisciplinary scholars to confront the persistent issues of youth unemployment and worsening socio-economic precarity in the United States. The book explores structural and cultural causes of youth unemployment, their ramifications for both native and immigrant youth, and how middle- and working-class youth across diverse races and ethnicities are affected within and outside the legal economy. A needed contribution, this book locates solutions to youth unemployment in economic and political changes as well as changes in cultural attitudes.
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Published: 1979
Total Pages: 234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David H. Swinton
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 138
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Vice President's Task Force on Youth Employment
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 880
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard B. Freeman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780226261645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years, the earnings of young blacks have risen substantially relative to those of young whites, but their rates of joblessness have also risen to crisis levels. The papers in this volume, drawing on the results of a groundbreaking survey conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, analyze the history, causes, and features of this crisis. The findings they report and conclusions they reach revise accepted explanations of black youth unemployment. The contributors identify primary determinants on both the demand and supply sides of the market and provide new information on important aspects of the problem, such as drug use, crime, economic incentives, and attitudes among the unemployed. Their studies reveal that, contrary to popular assumptions, no single factor is the predominant cause of black youth employment problems. They show, among other significant factors, that where female employment is high, black youth employment is low; that even in areas where there are many jobs, black youths get relatively few of them; that the perceived risks and rewards of crime affect decisions to work or to engage in illegal activity; and that churchgoing and aspirations affect the success of black youths in finding employment. Altogether, these papers illuminate a broad range of economic and social factors which must be understood by policymakers before the black youth employment crisis can be successfully addressed.
Author: United States. Vice President's Task Force on Youth Employment
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Valerie Kincade Oppenheimer
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 86
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Bernard Hill
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1984-01-01
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781412841948
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe persistent high level of unemployment among young people has become an issue of national concern. This study examines nationwide attitudes, practices, and policies of private employers toward hiring youth. A survey was conducted in 1981-82 among a random cross-sample of 535 private employers taken from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Employer Information Report list (EEO-1). The major findings and recommendations were as follows: (1) strategies are needed to facilitate young workers' moving into long-term, higher-paying occupations; (2) private industry should adopt more flexible guidelines to increase teenagers' securing full-time, entry-level positions; (3) advancement opportunities for young workers must increase, especially in service firms and medium-sized and large businesses; (4) most employers surveyed believe that young people perform as well as adults in most areas; (5) the number of private industry-initiated job programs for minority youth should increase; (6) employers need to be made more aware of government programs designed to increase employment opportunities for youth; (7) studies should be done to find out why nearly half of the employers surveyed do not think that a subminimum wage differential will increase young people's job opportunities; (8) employers' willingness to hire minority youths is based on their commitment to helping disadvantaged young people more than on the level of wage subsidy offered; (9) and teaching basic skills in school and skills training on the job must be emphasized to increase youth employability. A description of the EEO-1 list, the sampling plan, the questionnaire, 17 tables, and a 37-item bibliography are appended. (CJS)