The Youth Labor Market Problem

1. The Youth Labor Market Problem: Its Nature, Causes, and Consequences
Richard B. Freeman and David A. Wise
2. Teenage Unemployment: What Is the Problem?
Martin Feldstein and David T. Ellwood
3. The Youth Labor Market Problem in the United States: An Overview
Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff
4. Why Does the Rate of Youth Labor Force Activity Differ across Surveys?
Richard B. Freeman and James L. Medoff
Comment: Paul O. Flaim
Comment: Stephen M. Hills
5. Economic Determinants of Geographic and Individual Variation in the Labor Market Position of Young Persons
Richard B. Freeman
Comment: T. Aldrich Finegan
6. Time Series Changes in Youth Joblessness
Michael Wachter and Choongsoo Kim
Comment: Edward Kalachek
Comment: Robert J. Gordon
7. The Dynamics of Youth Unemployment
Kim B. Clark and Lawrence H. Summers
Comment: George L. Perry
Comment: Robert I. Lerman
8. Labor Turnover and Youth Unemployment
Linda Leighton and Jacob Mincer
Comment: Alan L. Gustman
Comment: W. Kip Viscusi
9. High School Preparation and Early Labor Force Experience
Robert H. Meyer and David A. Wise
Comment: Frank Levy
Comment: Gary Chamberlain
10. Teenage Unemployment: Permanent Scars or Temporary Blemishes?
David T. Ellwood
Comment: Robert J. Willis
Comment: Burt S. Barnow
11. The Employment and Wage Consequences of Teenage Women’s Nonemployment
Mary Corcoran
Comment: Soloman William Polachek
Comment: Isabel V. Sawhill
12. Dead-end Jobs and Youth Unemployment
Charles Brown
Comment: Paul Osterman
Comment: Ronald G. Ehrenberg
13. Family Effects in Youth Employment
Albert Rees and Wayne Gray
Comment: Christopher Winship
Comment: George Farkas and Ernst W. Stromsdorfer
14. The Minimum Wage and Job Turnover in Markets for Young Workers
Robert E. Hall
Comment: Christopher A. Sims
Comment: Martin Neil Baily
15. Youth Unemployment in Britain and the United States Compared
Richard Layard
Comment: Daniel S. Hamermesh
Comment: Beatrice G. Reubens
List of Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index