The effects of youth employment. Evidence from New York City summer youth employment program lotteries.

Autor/inn/en	Gelber, Alexander; Isen, Adam; Kessler, Judd B.
Institution	National Bureau of Economic Research
Titel	The effects of youth employment. Evidence from New York City summer youth employment program lotteries. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Wirkungen von Jugendarbeitslosigkeit.
Quelle	Cambridge, Mass. (2014), 70 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	NBER working paper. 20810
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
DOI	10.3386/w20810
Schlagwörter	Bildungschance; Arbeitsmarktpolitik; Einkommen; Erfolgskontrolle; Schüler; USA; Teilnehmer; Ferienarbeit; Studienanfänger; Saisonarbeit; Schüler; Erfolgskontrolle; Ferienarbeit; Beschäftigungseffekt; Einkommen; Saisonarbeit; Arbeitsmarktchance; Arbeitsmarktpolitik; Teilnehmer; Jugendlicher; Studienanfänger; New York, N.Y.; USA
Abstract	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 participants 'out of trouble.' We study randomized lotteries for access to New York City's Summer Youth Employment Program (SYEP), the largest summer youth employment program in the U.S., by merging SYEP administrative data on 294,580 lottery participants to IRS data on the universe of U.S. tax records and to New York State administrative incarceration data. In assessing the three rationales, we find that: (1) SYEP participation causes average earnings and the probability of employment to increase in the year of program participation, with modest contemporaneous crowdout of other earnings and employment; (2) SYEP participation causes a moderate decrease in average earnings for three years following the program and has no impact on college enrollment; and (3) SYEP participation decreases the probability of incarceration and decreases the probability of mortality, which has important and potentially pivotal implications for analyzing the net benefits of the program. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2015/2