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Family Effects in Youth Employment / Albert E. Rees, Wayne B. Gray.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rees, Albert E.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w0396.
- NBER working paper series no. w0396
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Youth--Employment.
- Youth.
- Unemployed youth.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1979.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1979.
- Summary:
- The authors begin with the hypothesis that parental contacts play a major role in finding jobs for youth. This hypothesis is tested with a model of youth employment that includes characteristics of other family members in addition to a large set of control variables. Particular attention is paid to parental characteristics that might indicate a parent's ability to assist the youth in finding a job, including occupation, industry and education. The effects of such variables are generally not significant and do not support the initial hypothesis. However, the employment probability of a youth is significantly affected by the presence of employed siblings, indicating the presence of some intrafamily effects.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 1979.
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