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Title: Employment Status of Hispanics
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1. Santos, Richard
Employment Status of Hispanics
In: A Profile of Hispanic Youth: Youth Knowledge Development Report 10.2, U.S. Department of Labor, 1980
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor
Keyword(s): High School; Hispanic Youth; Hispanics; Unemployment

In 1979, nearly a million Hispanic youth age 16-21 are in the labor force in the NLS survey week; approximately 720,000 are employed, 218,000 are unemployed, and 578,000 are neither looking for nor holding jobs. Hispanic youth represent 5.1 percent of the employed youth, 6.5 percent of the unemployed youth, and 8.1 percent of those outside the labor force. Hispanics occupy an intermediate employment status relative to blacks and whites.
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Santos, Richard. "Employment Status of Hispanics" In: A Profile of Hispanic Youth: Youth Knowledge Development Report 10.2, U.S. Department of Labor, 1980