The Relationship Between Family Life and Young People's Lifestyles
This paper explores the impact of family life and structure on educational, social, and health outcomes for adolescents.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• The Joseph Rowntree Foundation • April 01, 1996

Child Poverty and its Consequences
This paper looks at trends in child poverty and the impact family poverty has on children's outcomes and on the liklihood of future disadvantage.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• The Joseph Rowntree Foundation • March 01, 1999

Effects of Higher Minimum Wages on Teen Employment and School Enrollment
This study provides evidence that, overall, increasing the minimum wage would lead to increased levels of employment and slightly decreased school enrollment for teenagers.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Joint Center for Poverty Research • July 2000

The Role of the Family in Determining Youth Employment
This paper demonstrates that high parental income, parental provision of an allowance, parental employment, height, and minority background are all factors associated with an adolescent’s decision to work fewer hours or not to work at all.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Joint Center for Poverty Research • November 1999

Outcomes for Youths with Serious Emotional Disturbance in Secondary School and Early Adulthood
This article describes the school performance, social experiences, employment patterns, and independence levels of students with serious emotional disturbances.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• The Future of Children • Summer/Fall 1995

Preparing Diverse Adolescents for the Transition to Adulthood
This article examines the extent to which youth from immigrant and minority backgrounds achieve the educational attainment, employment success, and physical and mental health necessary for a successful adult life.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• The Future of Children • Summer 2004

Career Goals in High School: Do Students Know What it Takes to Reach Them and Does it Matter?

• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Statistics Canada • October 1, 2009

Interrupting High School and Returning to Education
This article is a fact sheet examining the proportion of young adults who have left high school without a diploma.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Statistics Canada • April 2010

African American Adolescent Girls in Impoverished Communities: Quality of Parenting and Adolescent Outcomes
This paper discusses the effect of parenting style and parental involvement on the behaviour, educational achievement, employment, sexual activity and pregnancy history of young black girls living in poverty.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• The Joint Center for Poverty Research • June 14, 1999

Effects of Welfare Reform on Teenage Parents and their Children
This article discusses the effectiveness of the Teenage Parent Welfare Demonstration, a welfare-to-work program for teenage mothers.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• The Future of Children • Summer/Fall 1995

Youth, Guns, and Violent Crime
This article examines the scope and causes of youth violence in the United States, particularly in the late 1980s and early 1990s-- a period in which rates of violent youth crime skyrocketed.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• The Future of Children • 2002

The Effects of Family Characteristics and Time Use on Teenage Girls' and Boys' Household Labor
This paper looks at gender differences in teenagers' contributions to household chores, and examines how this inequality grows throughout the high school grades.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Center for Research on Child Wellbeing • 1998

Adolescent Work Intensity and Substance Use: The Mediational and Moderational Roles of Parents
Previous studies have demonstrated that high school students who work have higher rates of alcohol and marijuana use.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Journal of Marriage and Family • August 2008

Earnings of Black and White Youth and Their Relation to Poverty
This paper examines the relationship between family poverty and youth employment for black and white families.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Institute for Research on Poverty • August 01, 1997

Youth Unemployment in Australia: A Contextual, Governmental, and Organisational Perspective
This paper examines rates of unemployment among Australia's youth, investigates some potential causes, identifies youth most at risk of being without a job, and discusses the costs of youth unemployment to both the individual and society.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• The Smith Family • November 01, 2003

Australian Social Trends 1996: Work - Paid Work: Youth Employment
This article looks at Australian statistics on youth employment, and discusses the industries that employ young people.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Australian Bureau of Statistics • January 12, 2001

Unemployed Youth in South Africa: The Distressed Generation?
This paper examines the prevalence and consequences of youth unemployment in South Africa and discusses possible strategies to remedy the problem of high rates of youth unemployment.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Human Sciences Research Council • 2003

The Effect of Labor Market Changes from the Early 1970s to the Late 1980s on Youth Wage, Earnings, and Household Economic Position
This paper looks at the employment outcomes of high- and low-skilled youth in different economic periods.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Institute for Research on Poverty • September 01, 1998

Barriers and Promising Approaches to Workforce and Youth Development for Young Offenders
This paper discusses methods of punishment and rehabilitation for young offenders aimed at preventing recidivism.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• The Annie E. Casey Foundation • 2002

Australian Social Trends 2001: Work - Under-Utilised Labour: Unemployment Trends and Patterns
This document explores the Australian rates of unemployment by age and geographic location, and compares these statistics to international unemployment rates.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Australian Bureau of Statistics • May 20, 2002

Dropping Out of High School: Definitions and Costs
This paper presents research on the costs that high school dropouts incur on themselves and to society as a whole, and focuses specifically on the incidence, characteristics, and the labour market outcomes of dropouts.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Human Resources Development Canada • October 01, 2000

Sexuality, Poverty, and the Inner City
This document contains two papers on poverty and sexuality in the inner-city and focuses on teenage sexual relationships and pregnancies, and the impact of increasing numbers of unwed mothers on the welfare system.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation • 1994

Peer Helper Initiatives for Out of Mainstream Youth
This paper looks at the challenges and benefits of using young adults to provide personal support such as mentoring, tutoring, and employment, to adolescent runaways, drop outs, and the homeless.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Health Canada • 1996

Unemployment Duration, Schooling and Property Crime
This paper studies the relationship between adolescent unemployment, educational achievement and crime.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Center for Economic Policy Research • April 2002

Australian Social Trends: Population - Population Distribution: Youth Migration Within Australia
This document examines trends in youth migration, characteristics of youth who move, and factors influencing their migration patterns, such as employment and home-leaving.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Australian Bureau of Statistics • June 03, 2003

Leave No Youth Behind: Opportunities for Congress to Reach Disconnected Youth
This report examines six government programs that could be used to help disconnected and at-risk youth.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Center for Law and Social Policy • July 01, 2003

Work Stress and Job Performance
Using data from the 2002 Canadian Community Health Survey and the National Population Health Survey, this study examines effect of work stress on productivity.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Statistics Canada, Labour and Household Surveys Analysis Division • December 2007

What Works in Reducing Young People's Involvement in Crime?
This paper reviews existing literature on various types of youth crime prevention initiatives, including mentoring, social development, educational, recreational, and employment programs.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Australian Institute of Criminology • December 05, 2002

When Work Matters: The Varying Impact of Work Intensity on High School Dropout
Using propensity-score matching techniques, the authors of this paper determine that long working hours among high school students does not encourage school dropout.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• American Sociological Association • April 2007

The Education and Labor Market Outcomes of Adolescent Fathers
This paper looks at the long-term outcomes for men who were teen fathers and finds that they generally have lower levels of education and overall earnings.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Institute for Research on Poverty • August 01, 1993

Policy Research Issues for Canadian Youth: School-Work Transitions
This paper summarizes the literature on Canadian school-to-work transitions and provides information on emerging and ongoing policy issues such as post-secondary participation and employment patterns, skill development (including information technology), and youth entrepreneurship.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Social Development Canada • June 01, 2001

Promising Practices: School to Career and Post-Secondary Education for Foster Care Youth
This study outlines fourteen effective foster care programs, looks at the career and educational services that they provide for foster youth, and suggests ways to help foster youth obtain post-secondary education and high-wage employment.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• The Annie E. Casey Foundation • 2000

The Impact of Education and Training on the Labour Market Experiences of Young Adults
This paper discusses factors that affect the employment, earnings and educational opportunities and choices of young people.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Institute for Fiscal Studies • April 20, 2000

At a Crossroads: First Results for the 18 to 20-year-old Cohort of the Youth in Transition Survey
This paper assesses how the future of Canada is dependent on the current education and employment quality of today's youth.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Human Resources Development Canada • January 01, 2002

Australian Social Trends 1995: Work - Unemployment: Youth Unemployment
This article looks at Australian statistics on adolescent unemployment rates, educational attainment as it pertains to unemployment, and trends in youth labour force participation.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Australian Bureau of Statistics • January 25, 2001

A Dynamic Analysis of the School-to-Work Transition of Post-Secondary Graduates in Canada
This paper reports the results of an analysis on the transition of post-secondary students into the workforce, and collects longitudinal data on Canadian college and university students from 1982 to 1990.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Human Resources and Skills Development of Canada • July 1999

Australian Social Trends 2001: Education - Participation in Education: Trends in Completing School
This article examines the educational attainment statistics for Australian youth as well as the factors influencing adolescents' decisions to drop-out.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Australian Bureau of Statistics • May 20, 2002

School Achievement and Labour Market Outcomes
This study looks at the influence of various factors, including school achievement and educational attainment, on the employment status and earnings of young Australians.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Centre for Economic Policy Research • April 1999

The Busy Lives of Teens
This study examines the average number of daily hours Canadian teens spend on housework, paid work and school-related activities.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Statistics Canada • May 2007

Self-Sufficiency of Former Foster Youth in Wisconsin: Analysis of Unemployment Insurance Wage Data and Public Assistance Data
This paper looks at workforce participation, income, and reliance on public assistance among former foster youth who exited foster care at the age of seventeen or older.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Institute for Research on Poverty • August 01, 2001

Job Change and Job Stability Among Less-Skilled Young Workers
This paper reviews existing research relating to adolescent job stability and instability, and presents new findings from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY).
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Institute for Research on Poverty • November 01, 1998

Long Term Effects of a Mandatory Multistage Program: The New Deal for Young People in the UK
This paper assesses the effectiveness of The New Deal for Young People, a mandatory program which targets unemployed young adults in the United Kingdom and seeks to improve their employability.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• The Institute for Fiscal Studies • 2005

Australia's Young People: Their Health and Wellbeing 1999
This report provides detailed statistical information pertaining to the health status, risk-taking behaviour, social well-being, and access to health and community services of Australian youths aged 12 to 24.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare • 1999

Australia's Young People: Their Health and Wellbeing 2003
This report provides comprehensive information relating to the physical, mental, and emotional well-being of Australian youth.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Australian Institute of Health and Welfare • 2003

Young Women Work: Community Economic Development to Reduce Women’s Poverty and Improve Income
This paper describes the challenges and opportunities for young, disadvantaged women in the Canadian economy and outlines approaches to preventing poverty among women aged 15 to 24.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• The Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence • February 2005

Employment Outcomes for Youth Aging Out of Foster Care
This report describes the employment outcomes of youth who left foster care after their eighteenth birthday in California, Illinois, and South Carolina in the 1990s.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Human Services Policy, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation • March 2002

How Community Structures of Time and Opportunity Shape Adolescent Sexual Behavior in South Africa
This study uses data relating to adolescent time use, education, work, and activities to investigate the extent to which everyday experiences influence sexual risk-taking among South African youth.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Population Council • 2002

Street Culture Kidz
This article assesses community safety and crime prevention based on efforts to foster the healthy, secure, and prosocial development of children and youth.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Caledon Institute of Social Policy • October 01, 2000

The Odyssey Project: A Descriptive and Prospective Study of Children and Youth in Residential Group Care and Therapeutic Foster Care
This paper investigates the age, gender, family, behavioural, and mental health characteristics of children in residential group care (RGC) and therapeutic foster care (TFC) programs.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Child Welfare League of America • 2003

Getting a Piece of the Pie? Declining Teen Birth Rates During the 1990s
This paper investigates the possibility that unprecedented economic expansion in the United States in the 1990s contributed to declining teenage birth rates, particularly among African-American girls.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Population Studies Center • October 2002

Employment, Delinquency and Sex During Adolescence: Evidence from the NLSY97
This paper examines rates of employment, delinquency and sexual activity among adolescents, and seeks to determine the extent to which they are interrelated.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Population Research Center • August 1999

Adolescents' Formal Employment and School Enrollment: Effects of State Welfare Policies
This paper demonstrates that strict welfare policies often serve to reduce job opportunities for youth, by significantly increasing the number of individuals who are looking for jobs.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• John Hopkins University • February 2004

School to Adult Life Transitions through Work and Study: A Select Review of the Literature
This paper discusses the complicated and often difficult transition that youth in Australia must make from high school to full time employment, postsecondary education, or training.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• The Smith Family • March 2002

Youth Unemployment: Aggregate Incidence and Consequences for Individuals
This paper gives a description and explanation of the trends and patterns in, and consequences of, youth unemployment in Australia.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Centre for Economic Policy Research • December 2002

The Persistent Segregation of Girls into Lower-Paying Jobs while in School
This paper explores gender differences in employment among high school-aged adolescents from 1984 to 2001.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Institute for the Study of Labor • March 2005

Residential Location and Youth Unemployment: The Economic Geography of School-To-Work Transitions
This paper explores the dynamics of the school-to-work transition among German youth and considers the effect of family background and household characteristics on youths' career and educational decisions.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Institute for the Study of Labor • December 1999

Statistics of Education: Care Leavers, 2002–2003, England
This paper provides statistical information pertaining to the educational qualifications of youths who aged out of foster care or other forms of non-parental care.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Office for National Statistics • November 2003

Still Struggling: An Update on Teenagers at Work
This report analyzes the falling youth employment rate in the 1990s.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Canadian Council on Social Development • March 2001

Exploring the Effects of Childhood Family Structure on Teenage on Young Adult Labour Force Participation
This analysis of data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY) looks at the relationship between family structure, adolescent participation in the labour force, and teenage educational attainment.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Institute for Research on Poverty • October 01, 1996

The Role of Supports in Successful Labor Force Entry for Youth with Disabilities
This report describes programs which provide support to disabled youth as they transition from school to work.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Disability, Aging and Long-Term Care Policy, The Lewin Group • September 2001

Why is Youth Unemployment so High and Unequally Spread in South Africa?
This paper documents the high rates of youth unemployment in South Africa and explores variables that affect youth employment outcomes.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Development Policy Research Unit • April 2002

Engagement and Dropping Out of School: A Life-Course Perspective
In an effort to better estimate why individuals drop out of high school prior to graduating, ...
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Human Resources Development Canada • February 01, 2001

School Enrollment and the Declining Youth Participation Rate
This article looks at the declining rate of employment among youth between the ages of 15 to 24 years of age and analyzes the effect that school enrolment has on youths’ participation in and their behaviour towards the labour market in the 1990’s.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Human Resources Development Canada • February 01, 1998

The Well-Being of Older Youth in Out-of-Home Care Who Are Headed to Independence
This paper reports on the employment status, health, educational attainment, delinquency, and social activities of youth who have gained independence from foster care.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Children and Family Research Center • 2001

Minimum Wage Laws and the Distribution of Employment
This report demonstrates that increasing the minimum wage displaces full-time adult workers in favour of part-time young workers.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Employment Policies Institute • January 01, 1995

Education and Labour Market Status of Young People in England Aged 16-18: 1992-1998
This report looks at the number of young people who are both employed and involved in a training or education program.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• The Department for Education and Skills • October 01, 1999

Teens, Jobs, and Welfare: Implications for Social Policy
This study of teen employment patterns in the United States finds that young people whose parents have left welfare for work are more likely to have jobs than those whose parents have remained on welfare.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Child Trends • August 01, 2001

Are Teens in Low-Income and Welfare Families Working Too Much?
This paper looks at the employment patterns for teenagers in low-income and welfare families, and assesses the impact of adolescent work on academic performance and educational attainment.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• The Urban Institute • November 01, 2000

The Effect of Minimum Wages on the Labor Force Participation Rates of Teenagers
This paper argues that raising the minimum wage is detrimental to the employment and labour force participation of adolescents.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Employment Policies Institute • June 01, 2001

Employment and the Sexual and Reproductive Behavior of Female Adolescents
This study finds that employed adolescent girls are more likely to experience their first sexual encounter sooner than are their unemployed peers.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• The Alan Guttmacher Institute • June 01, 2002

Higher Minimum Wages Harm Minority and Inner-City Teens
This paper argues that although increasing the minimum wage results in increased employment and improved educational attainment for adolescents over all, it actually is detrimental to teens from minority or inner city backgrounds.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Employment Policies Institute • September 01, 2000

The 1992 New Jersey Minimum Wage Increase: How Much Did it Affect Family Income
This paper demonstrates that the New Jersey minimum wage increase had little or no positive effect for poor families but rather benefitted young, single people with higher family incomes.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Employment Policies Institute • May 01, 1996

Youth Cohort Study: The Activities and Experiences of 16 Year Olds: England and Wales 2002
This report provides statistical information pertaining to the education, training, and employment experiences of sixteen year olds in England and Wales.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Office for National Statistics: Department for Education and Skills • February 20, 2003

Teenage Pregnancy
This article looks at the prevalence of teenage pregnancy and abortion in Canada and finds that, while adolescent pregnancy rates have decreased, abortions have proportionately increased to over fifty percent.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Statistics Canada • October 01, 2000

Supporting Youth Employment: A Guide for Community Groups
This paper discusses the impact of education on teens' wages and quality of employment, and looks at programs and activities that help youth become successful, financially stable adults.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Public/Private Ventures • 2002

Youth Cohort Study: The Activities and Experiences of 19 Year Olds: England and Wales 2003
This report provides statistical information pertaining to the education, training, and employment experiences of nineteen year olds in England and Wales.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Office for National Statistics: Department for Education and Skills • December 11, 2003

Australian Social Trends 1996: Education - Educational Attainment: Early School Leavers
This article provides Australian statistics on the employment and educational outcomes for young people who drop out of school.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Australian Bureau of Staistics • January 12, 2001

Do Child Characteristics Affect How Children Fare in Families Receiving and Leaving Welfare?
This paper explores the impact of welfare on child development and well-being, and finds that male adolescent welfare leavers fare worse than those who are current recipients of financial assistance.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• The Urban Insitute • August 02, 2004

Youth Cohort Study: The Activities and Experiences of 18 Year Olds: England and Wales 2002
This report provides statistical information pertaining to the education, training, and employment experiences of eighteen year olds in England and Wales.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Office for National Statistics: Department for Education and Skills • February 20, 2003

Arizona’s School To Work Solutions For Out-of-School Youth
This paper looks at school-to-work programs that train trades skills to youths who have dropped out of school.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona State University • July 01, 1997

The Long-Term Effects of Youth Unemployment
This paper provides evidence that policies that lead to youth unemployment can have an impact on youth throughout their lives.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Economic Policies Institute • October 01, 2001

The Youth Cohort Study: The Activities and Experiences of 17 Year Olds: England and Wales
This report provides statistical information pertaining to the education, training, and employment experiences of seventeen year olds in England and Wales.
• Category: Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
• Office for National Statistics: Department for Education and Skills • December 11, 2003