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Title: What Researchers Have Learned from the National Longitudinal Surveys About Youth Unemployment
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What Researchers Have Learned from the National Longitudinal Surveys About Youth Unemployment Report No 828. Washington, DC: US Department of Labor, August 1992. Also: http://stats.bls.gov/pdf/nlssp002.pdf Cohort(s): NLS General Publisher: U.S. Department of Labor Keyword(s): Job Requirements; Longitudinal Surveys; Minorities, Youth; Unemployment; Unemployment Duration; Unemployment, Youth Unemployment rates of youth typically exceed those of other workers. This report summarizes some of the research that uses the National Longitudinal Surveys of Labor Market Experience (NLS), with special reference to the employment problems of minority and disadvantaged youth. These surveys are a collection of five surveys: Young Men who were 14-24 in 1966, Older Men who were 45-59 in 1966, Mature Women who were 30-44 in 1967, Young Women who were 14-24 in 1968, and Youth who were 14-21 in 1979, which includes both sexes. Because of the large samples of youth and because NLS respondents have been surveyed once every year or two over an extended period, these data are well-suited to examining the long-run consequences of youth labor market experiences. In particular, the 1979 NLS Youth Cohort (NLSY) contains weekly work histories detailing each respondent's labor force status, hours worked, and employment at more than one job, permitting analyses that are not possible with other data series. The sections of this report give an overview of the general characteristics of unemployed youths; discuss issues relating to the duration and incidence of joblessness among youth; survey the literature on the consequences of youth joblessness; discuss longer term consequences of youth unemployment and job search strategies of the young. a brief conclusion is provided that summarizes: NLS research has shown that blacks and whites appear to search for jobs in similar ways, both with regard to the search methods used and with regards to reservation wages for accepting a job offer. However, whites have more success in generating offers. This review has attempted to show the contribution that research using the NLS has made in understanding the problem of youth unemployment. |
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Bureau of Labor Statistics. What Researchers Have Learned from the National Longitudinal Surveys About Youth Unemployment. Report No 828. Washington, DC: US Department of Labor, August 1992.. |