Employment experience and other characteristics of youths : results from a new longitudinal survey.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics, issuing body.

Series:

News (United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics)

News / United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor supply--United States--Statistics.

Labor supply.

Youth--Employment--United States--Statistics.

Youth.

Youth--Employment--United States--Longitudinal studies.

Teenagers--United States--Statistics.

Teenagers.

Teenagers--United States.

Youth--Employment.

United States.

Genre:

Statistics

Statistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (3 pages, 6 unnumbered pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1999.

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

The 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) provided data on the employment experience and other characteristics of a nationally representative sample of 9,022 young men and women who were between 12 and 16 years old on December 31, 1996. The NLSY focused on four aspects of youth's lives: overall employment; employment while in school; educational experiences; and home characteristics. According to the NLSY, female youths were much less likely than male youths to hold an employee job at some time while age 14 or 15 and were more likely to engage in freelance jobs. From age 14 to age 15, youths moved toward more formal work arrangement: 24% of youths held an employee job at age 14 versus 38% at age 15. Twenty-eight percent of youths aged 14-16 worked during school and summer months, and 16% of youths who had attended ninth grade or higher in 1997, had been involved in gifted and talented programs. Youths between the ages of 12 and 15 spent an average of 17 hours per week watching television but only 11 hours doing homework or reading for pleasure combined. Working youths watched less television than their nonworking counterparts did.

Notes:

"USDL 99-110."

"For release: 10:00 A.M. EDT, Friday, April 30, 1990."

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This is a publication issued by the United States federal government or produced with federal funds.

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Description based on online resource; title from caption (BLS website, viewed Feb. 24, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Employment experience and other characteristics of youths.

OCLC:

681966362

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