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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Human Sciences Research Council
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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The Annie E. Casey Foundation
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Human Resources Development Canada
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Health Canada
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1996
Unemployment Duration, Schooling and Property Crime
This paper studies the relationship between adolescent unemployment, educational achievement and crime.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Center for Economic Policy Research
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Center for Law and Social Policy
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Statistics Canada, Labour and Household Surveys Analysis Division
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Australian Institute of Criminology
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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American Sociological Association
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Social Development Canada
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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The Annie E. Casey Foundation
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Institute for Fiscal Studies
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Human Resources Development Canada
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Human Resources and Skills Development of Canada
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Australian Bureau of Statistics
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Centre for Economic Policy Research
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Statistics Canada
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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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).
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Institute for Research on Poverty
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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The Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Human Services Policy, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Population Council
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2002
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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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The Future of Children
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Summer 2004
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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Caledon Institute of Social Policy
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Child Welfare League of America
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2003
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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Joint Center for Poverty Research
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November 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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Joint Center for Poverty Research
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July 2000
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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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Population Studies Center
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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.
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Category:
Adolescence/Youth > Adolescent Employment
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