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DOI: 10.7208/chicago/9780226056845.001.0001
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University and is director of the NBER Labor Studies Program and codirector of the Center for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics. He is editor or coeditor of eight previous NBER volumes published by the University of Chicago Press.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
I. The Situation Facing Young Workers
1. The Declining Economic Status of Young Workers in OECD Countries
2. Cohort Crowding and Youth Labor Markets: A Cross-National Analysis
3. Gender and Youth Employment Outcomes: The United States and West Germany, 1984…1991
II. Youth Responses to the Market
4. Adapting to Circumstances: The Evolution of Work, School, and Living Arrangements among North American Youth
5. Disadvantaged Young Men and Crime
6. Child Development and Success or Failure in the Youth Labor Market
7. The Rising Well-Being of the Young
III. The Effect of Programs
8. The Sensitivity of Experimental Impact Estimates: Evidence from the National JTPA Study
9. The Swedish Youth Labor Market in Boom and Depression
10. Young and Out in Germany: On Youths' Chances of Labor Market Entrance in Germany
11. Minimum Wages and Youth Employment in France and the United States
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index