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Title: Informal Job Search and Black Youth Unemployment
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Holzer, Harry J. |
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Informal Job Search and Black Youth Unemployment American Economic Review 77,3 (June 1987): 446-452. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1804107 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: American Economic Association Keyword(s): Job Search; Racial Differences; Unemployment, Youth Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Data from the 1981 and 1982 panels of the NLSY are used to test for racial differences in the use and effectiveness of various job search methods. Also, the total observed difference in employment probabilities is decomposed into components attributed to each method of search, and further into differences in use, job offers, and job acceptances based on all methods. The results show that the two informal methods of search -- checking with friends and relatives and direct application without referral -- account for 87%-90% of the difference in youth employment probabilities between blacks and whites. In addition, virtually all of this reflects differences in the ability of these methods to produce job offers, as opposed to differences in methods used or job acceptance rates. Thus, the evidence strongly indicates that young blacks face more severe barriers when using informal rather than formal search methods, possibly because of the greater role played by personal contacts and subjective employers' impressions in the former. [ABI/INFORM] |
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Holzer, Harry J. "Informal Job Search and Black Youth Unemployment." American Economic Review 77,3 (June 1987): 446-452.
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