Youth Employment and the Minimum Wage
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 72
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Vice President's Task Force on Youth Employment
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charlene Marie Kalenkoski
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Published: 2016
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Policymakers often propose a minimum wage as a means of raising incomes and lifting workers out of poverty. However, improvements in some young workers' incomes as a result of a minimum wage come at a cost to others. Minimum wages reduce employment opportunities for youths and create unemployment. Workers miss out on on-the-job training opportunities that would have been paid for by reduced wages upfront but would have resulted in higher wages later. Youths who cannot find jobs must be supported by their families or by the social welfare system. Delayed entry into the labor market reduces the lifetime income stream of young unskilled workers.
Author: United States. Vice President's Task Force on Youth Employment
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Youcef Ghellab
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 96
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reviews the main theoretical models and recent empirical evidence on the correlation between the minimum wage and youth employment.
Author: Richard B. Freeman
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1986
Total Pages: 488
ISBN-13: 9780226261645
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent years, the earnings of young blacks have risen substantially relative to those of young whites, but their rates of joblessness have also risen to crisis levels. The papers in this volume, drawing on the results of a groundbreaking survey conducted by the National Bureau of Economic Research, analyze the history, causes, and features of this crisis. The findings they report and conclusions they reach revise accepted explanations of black youth unemployment. The contributors identify primary determinants on both the demand and supply sides of the market and provide new information on important aspects of the problem, such as drug use, crime, economic incentives, and attitudes among the unemployed. Their studies reveal that, contrary to popular assumptions, no single factor is the predominant cause of black youth employment problems. They show, among other significant factors, that where female employment is high, black youth employment is low; that even in areas where there are many jobs, black youths get relatively few of them; that the perceived risks and rewards of crime affect decisions to work or to engage in illegal activity; and that churchgoing and aspirations affect the success of black youths in finding employment. Altogether, these papers illuminate a broad range of economic and social factors which must be understood by policymakers before the black youth employment crisis can be successfully addressed.
Author: David G. Blanchflower
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 0226056848
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: United States. Vice President's Task Force on Youth Employment
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 880
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