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Title: Teenage Unemployment: Some Evidence of the Long-Run Effects on Wages
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Becker, Brian E. Hills, Stephen M. |
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Teenage Unemployment: Some Evidence of the Long-Run Effects on Wages Journal of Human Resources 15,3 (Summer 1980): 354-372. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/145288 Cohort(s): Young Men Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Keyword(s): Job Training; Teenagers; Unemployment; Unemployment, Youth; Wages While the issue of teenage unemployment has received a great deal of attention by policy-makers and the popular press, there is little systematic research on the long-run effects of this experience. This study attempts to address this question by examining the influence of teenage unemployment on subsequent wage rates. The study finds that for the average out-of-school youth, teenage unemployment has little effect on the wages earned as a young adult eight years later. In general, the experience is a positive one for white and black youth, though more so for the former. While extended teen unemployment diminishes these benefits for both races, only black youth suffer a drop in subsequent wages. There is indirect evidence that government training programs offset part of the effect of long-term teenage unemployment. Note: This was originally a report from the Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, February 1979. |
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Becker, Brian E. and Stephen M. Hills. "Teenage Unemployment: Some Evidence of the Long-Run Effects on Wages." Journal of Human Resources 15,3 (Summer 1980): 354-372.
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