Youth employment and joblessness in advanced countries / edited by David G. Blanchflower and Richard B. Freeman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blanchflower, David G.

Freeman, Richard B. (Richard Barry), 1943-

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

NBER Comparative labor markets series.

NBER Comparative labor markets series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unemployment--OECD countries--Congresses.

Unemployment.

Young men--Employment--OECD countries--Congresses.

Young men.

Young women--Employment--OECD countries--Congresses.

Young women.

Youth--Employment--OECD countries--Congresses.

Youth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (494 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction

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

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

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786611223106

9781281223104

1281223107

9780226056845

0226056848

OCLC:

476230015