Author: Richard B. Freeman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 568
ISBN-13: 0226261867
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: National Research Council and Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 1998-11-18
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0309174309
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Massachusetts, a 12-year-old girl delivering newspapers is killed when a car strikes her bicycle. In Los Angeles, a 14-year-old boy repeatedly falls asleep in class, exhausted from his evening job. Although children and adolescents may benefit from working, there may also be negative social effects and sometimes danger in their jobs. Protecting Youth at Work looks at what is known about work done by children and adolescents and the effects of that work on their physical and emotional health and social functioning. The committee recommends specific initiatives for legislators, regulators, researchers, and employers. This book provides historical perspective on working children and adolescents in America and explores the framework of child labor laws that govern that work. The committee presents a wide range of data and analysis on the scope of youth employment, factors that put children and adolescents at risk in the workplace, and the positive and negative effects of employment, including data on educational attainment and lifestyle choices. Protecting Youth at Work also includes discussions of special issues for minority and disadvantaged youth, young workers in agriculture, and children who work in family-owned businesses.
Author: Nicholas Eberstadt
Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press
Published: 2016-09-12
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1599474700
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →By one reading, things look pretty good for Americans today: the country is richer than ever before and the unemployment rate is down by half since the Great Recession—lower today, in fact, than for most of the postwar era. But a closer look shows that something is going seriously wrong. This is the collapse of work—most especially among America’s men. Nicholas Eberstadt, a political economist who holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute, shows that while “unemployment” has gone down, America’s work rate is also lower today than a generation ago—and that the work rate for US men has been spiraling downward for half a century. Astonishingly, the work rate for American males aged twenty-five to fifty-four—or “men of prime working age”—was actually slightly lower in 2015 than it had been in 1940: before the War, and at the tail end of the Great Depression. Today, nearly one in six prime working age men has no paid work at all—and nearly one in eight is out of the labor force entirely, neither working nor even looking for work. This new normal of “men without work,” argues Eberstadt, is “America’s invisible crisis.” So who are these men? How did they get there? What are they doing with their time? And what are the implications of this exit from work for American society? Nicholas Eberstadt lays out the issue and Jared Bernstein from the left and Henry Olsen from the right offer their responses to this national crisis. For more information, please visit http://menwithoutwork.com.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor Standards
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 316
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Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 140
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →UK. Research paper on trends in unemployment of young workers based on a national statistical analysis covering the years 1959 to 1977 - concentrates on patterns of duration of unemployment (incl. School leavers), population dynamics, and relevance of national unemployment rates by age, sex, wage rates, regional level differences, occupation and occupational change. Graphs, references and statistical tables.
Author: World Bank
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2014-05-12
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 1464801649
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →World Development Indicators (WDI) is the World Bank s premier annual compilation of data about development. This year s print edition and e-book have been redesigned to allow users the convenience of easily linking to the latest data on-line.
Author: United States. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Publisher:
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 380
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Publisher:
Published: 1936
Total Pages: 1176
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