…has negative employment effects, but these have become notably smaller and are largely localized to teenagers.” They speculate that the smaller employment downturns from higher minimum wages might be because…
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…are normal seasonal fluctuations in employment among men and women. From 2017 to 2019, employment for men and women fell during summer months, but more so for women. In turn,…
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…employment,” the authors write. But the authors also associate bans with lower employment rates for workers under age 22 and for Black workers, “groups commonly thought to benefit from such…
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…the U.S., drawn from states’ unemployment insurance administrative records. The downside is that it is published less frequently than the Current Employment Statistics survey — and there’s a lag. The…
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…the Health Affairs papers, “Hospital Employment Of Physicians In Massachusetts Is Associated With Inappropriate Diagnostic Imaging,” Gary Young, director of the Center for Health Policy and Healthcare Research at Boston’s…
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…work opportunities — raised employment rates in the short term, although they rarely improved employment or earnings in the longer term. Programs that linked these positions with regular employment were…
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…Teen Summer Employment Rates,” was published in Monthly Labor Review and tracks teen employment between 1948 and 2009. The researcher analyzed data from approximately 60,000 households in the Current Population…
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…concern.” Much of this concern is related to low-skilled employment: A 2012 study in the Journal of Labor Economics suggests that increased low-skilled employment reduces native youth employment. Further, Norman…
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…impact on employment at firms, the research does support the idea that “pre-existing employment positions are at greater risk of loss in the wake of private equity buyouts.” Tags: employment,…
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…“What Is a Summer Job Worth? The Impact of Summer Youth Employment on Academic Outcomes,” assesses the impact of New York City’s Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP) on high school…
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