Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries

David G Blanchflower

ISBN 10: 0226056589 / ISBN 13: 9780226056586

Edité par University Of Chicago Press Mär 2000, 2000

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Neuware - 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.

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• Titre: Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries
• Éditeur: University Of Chicago Press Mär 2000
• Date de parution: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0226056589
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780226056586
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 237 L x 162 H x 32 P (en millimètres) 237 millimètres de largeur par 162 millimètres de hauteur par 32 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 780 grammes

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Synopsis

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.

À propos des auteurs

David G. Branchflower is professor in and chair of the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Richard B. Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University and is director of the NBER Labor Studies Program and codirector of the Center for Economic Performance of the London School of Economics. He is editor or coeditor of eight previous NBER volumes published by the University of Chicago Press.

Richard B. Freeman is the Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics at Harvard University and is a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research.