Youth initiation into the labor market

Monthly Labor Review

Volumn 124, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 18-24

  Huang, Lynn ^a   Pergamit, Michael ^a   Shkolnik, Jamie ^b  

^a University of Chicago   (United States)

^b American Institute of Research   (United States)

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References (9)

1. R.T. Michael and N.B. Tuma, "Youth Employment: Does Life Begin at 16?," Journal of Labor Economics, 1984, vol. 2, no. 4, pp. 465-476.
2. See for example, the National Educational Longitudinal Survey-1988 or the Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
3. See for example, the National Educational Longitudinal Survey-1988 or the Youth Risk Behavior Survey.
4. Analysis of the interview data revealed the final sample size to be 8,984.
5. The measure we've chosen will most likely over-represent summer jobs that have a greater number of hours. This over-representation may affect the relationships we estimate with some of the variables.
6. The distribution has a very long right tail. We considered truncating the distribution to eliminate some very high values, but could not establish clearly that these were errors.
7. Because youths aged 12-13 are not officially in the labor force and no information is available on whether or not a respondent is looking for employment, we do not distinguish between the concept of being in the labor force and the concept of being employed.
8. A probit model is indicated because the outcome variable, whether a respondent ever worked, is discrete. See D.R. Cox, Analysis of Binary Data (London, Cambridge University Press, 1970).
9. See for example C.J. Ruhm, "Is High School Employment Consumption or Investment?," Journal of Labor Economics, 1997, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 735-776.