How Did the Great Recession Affect Different Types of Workers? Evidence from 17 Middle-Income Countries This paper examines how different types of workers in 17 middle-income countries were affected by labor market retrenchment during the great recession. Impacts on different types of workers varied by country and were only weakly related to the severity of the shock. Among active workers, yout...

The current employment rate of youth in West Africa is at a very high proportion compared to many other economic region of the world. African governments have attempted to address this problem, but always coming up short. Finding solutions to poverty problems will rid global society of its major problem. One of the enduring barriers to prosperity in an open-market economy is the failure to mast...

Title of Document: CONNECTING THE FORGOTTEN HALF: THE SCHOOL-TO-WORK TRANSITION OF NON-COLLEGE BOUND YOUTH Thomson Joseph Ling, PhD, 2009 Directed By: Professor Karen O’Brien, Department of Psychology When we think of high school students making the transition to adulthood, most of us picture students pursuing a college or university education. However, for many individuals, this image is not t...

On the basis of prior research findings that employed youth, and especially intensively employed youth, have higher rates of delinquent behavior and lower academic achievement, scholars have called for limits on the maximum number of hours per week that teenagers are allowed to work. We use the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 to assess the claim that employment and work hours are cau...

Programs to encourage labor market activity among youth, including public employment programs and wage subsidies like the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, can be supported by three broad rationales. They may: (1) provide contemporaneous income support to participants; (2) encourage work experience that improves future employment and/or educational outcomes of participants; and/or (3) keep participa...

Programs to encourage labor market activity among youth, including public employment programs and wage subsidies like the Work Opportunity Tax Credit, can be supported by three broad rationales. They may: (1) provide contemporaneous income support to participants; (2) encourage work experience that improves future employment and/or educational outcomes of participants; and/or (3) keep participa...

Much controversy surrounds the consequences of adolescent paid work, with researchers coming to diverse conclusions about whether work is good, work is bad, work doesn't matter (the purported effects of employment are spurious, dependent on processes of selection), and work matters for some youth but not others, depending on their prior backgrounds and attributes and the contexts of their emplo...

The current picture of youth development is rather ambiguous. On the one hand, the modern Russian youth is noted for growing independence, practicality and mobility, responsibility for their own lives, drastically increasing interest in getting high-quality education and professional training affecting further employment and career. Young people strive for integration in the international youth...

Juvenile offenders with substance use problems are at high risk for deleterious long-term outcomes. This study evaluated the capacity of a promising vocational and employment training program in the building sector (i.e., Community Restitution Apprenticeship-Focused Training, CRAFT) to mitigate such outcomes through enhanced employment and education. Participants were 97 high-risk juvenile offe...

Title of Document: CONGRUENCE X EMPLOYMENT TENURE: A STUDY WITH TRANSITIONING YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES Juliana Unis Castan, Master of Arts, 2010 Directed By: Professor Ellen Fabian, Department of Counseling and Personnel Services This study examined the relationship between congruence (between individual’s inventoried career interests and subsequent job) and employment tenure for transitioning y...