The Youth Labor Market Problem
The Youth Labor Market Problem

Author: Richard B. Freeman

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 0226261867

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This volume brings together a massive body of much-needed research information on a problem of crucial importance to labor economists, policy makers, and society in general: unemployment among the young. The thirteen studies detail the ambiguity and inadequacy of our present standard statistics as applied to youth employment, point out the error in many commonly accepted views, and show that many critically important aspects of this problem are not adequately understood. These studies also supply a significant amount of raw data, furnish a platform for further research and theoretical work in labor economics, and direct attention to promising avenues for future programs.

International Perspectives on the Youth Labor Market: Emerging Research and Opportunities
International Perspectives on the Youth Labor Market: Emerging Research and Opportunities

Author: Amine, Samir

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2020-06-26

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 179982781X

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Persistent unemployment and rising wage differences at the expense of low-skilled workers has characterized the labor market in most developed countries. Since the last economic crisis, unemployment rates and pay inequalities have increased among workers under 25 years of age, thus creating an ever-widening financial gap for an entire generation. Those who do not have a qualification or post-secondary diploma often find themselves in precarious jobs at minimum wage. Countries are now working to adopt reforms to improve the situation of young people in the labor market. International Perspectives on the Youth Labor Market: Emerging Research and Opportunities provides emerging research exploring the theoretical and practical aspects of financial inequality and applications within global economics. Unlike literature that focuses only on developed countries, this book also addresses emerging economies whose labor market is often characterized by a dualism that makes the situation of young workers worse. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as unemployment rate, labor reform, and job insecurity, this book is ideally designed for economists, government officials, policymakers, executives, managers, business professionals, researchers, academicians, and students.

Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries
Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries

Author: David G. Blanchflower

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 0226056848

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The economic status of young people has declined significantly over the past two decades, despite a variety of programs designed to aid new workers in the transition from the classroom to the job market. This ongoing problem has proved difficult to explain. Drawing on comparative data from Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, these papers go beyond examining only employment and wages and explore the effects of family background, education and training, social expectations, and crime on youth employment. This volume brings together key studies, providing detailed analyses of the difficult economic situation plaguing young workers. Why have demographic changes and additional schooling failed to resolve youth unemployment? How effective have those economic policies been which aimed to improve the labor skills and marketability of young people? And how have youths themselves responded to the deteriorating job market confronting them? These questions form the empirical and organizational bases upon which these studies are founded.

The Youth Labor Market
The Youth Labor Market

Author: Edward D. Kalachek

Publisher:

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13:

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Literature survey on employment and unemployment of young workers in the USA - covers labour demand of teenage labour, cyclical unemployment, structural unemployment, the distribution of young workers (incl. The young woman worker) in the occupational structure, wages flexibility, educational level, the problem of dropouts, work motivation, employment opportunities (incl. For Black and other non-white youth), etc. Statistical tables.

Why is There a Youth Labor Market Problem?
Why is There a Youth Labor Market Problem?

Author: Richard B. Freeman

Publisher:

Published: 2022

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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This paper examines what is known about the causes of the high and increasing levels of youth joblessness and related problems in the youth labor market. Partly because of inconsistencies in reported rates of youth employment across surveys and partly because of problems in measuring key social variables, it is difficult to reach firm conclusions. As far as can be told, much of the relatively high rate of youth joblessness can be attributed to turnover and mobility patterns that are normal in the U.S. economy, but much is also directly related to a dearth of jobs. Demand forces, which have come to be neglected in favor of supply in much popular discussion of youth joblessness, are major determinants of variation in youth employment over time and among areas. For groups facing the most severe joblessness problems, however, the difficulty due to lack of jobs appears to be compounded by problems of employability related to deleterious social patterns. Surprisingly, perhaps, the factors that determine the probability that young persons end up employed or jobless differ substantively from those that determine wages. The paper explains the decline in the earnings of young workers relative to old workers in terms of the increased number of young persons. It speculates that the decline in relative wages may have contributed significantly to the stable ratio of employment to population among young whites. The causes of the downward trend in youth employment for nonwhites -- which constitute one of the major developments of the period -- remain a conundrum.