…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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…workers? Unemployment rates for native-born and foreign-born workers are usually not far off from one another. In January, the unemployment rate for U.S.-born workers was 4.3% compared with 4.6% for…
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…enter markets with strong employment and business growth. New minor league sports teams also do not tend to affect employment, but for markets between 100,000 and 499,000 people, the findings…
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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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…year, employment levels for these teens hover around 4 million to 5 million, so an additional 1 million to 2 million teens usually get jobs during the summer. While getting…
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…reduces employment opportunities for individuals who only speak English. An academic study worth reading: “The (Unintended) Consequences of Bilingual Employment Policies: Ethnoraciality and Labor Market Segmentation in Alameda County, CA,”…
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