Young workers in the global economy
Subtitle: job challenges in North America, Europe and Japan
By: edited by Gregory DeFreitas.
Contributors: DeFreitas, Gregory.
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cheltenham, UK; Massachusetts, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9781847204578
Subjects: Youth -- Employment -- Europe; Youth -- Employment -- North America; Youth -- Employment -- Japan
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 311-333) and index.
Table of contents: title: Youth employment: crisis or course change? : an introduction / Gregory DeFreitas; title: The youth labor market problem in cross-country perspective / Rebekka Christopoulou; title: Out of school, out of work, out of luck? : black male youth joblessness in New York City / Mark Levitan; title: Still with us after all of these years : youth labor market entry, home-leaving and human capital accumulation in Italy, 1993-2003 / Niall O'Higgins; title: Youth employment in Japan after the 1990s bubble burst / Naoki Mitani; title: Youth employment problems and school-to-work institutions in advanced economies / Paul Ryan; title: Work and non-work time use of US college students / Lonnie M. Golden; title: Occupational fatalities among young workers / Janice Windau; title: Falling private health insurance coverage among young workers in the United States / Niev J. Duffy; title: Immigration and youth employment : recent debates and research findings / Gregory DeFreitas; title: Unauthorized Mexican immigration and youth labor market outcomes in California in the 1990s / Enrico A. Marcelli; title: How can we improve employment outcomes for young black men? / Harry J. Holzer; title: Does Job Corps training boost the labor market outcomes of young Latinos? / Alfonso Flores-Lagunes, Arturo Gonzalez and Todd Neumann; title: Have young workers lost their (collective) voice? : youth-adult preferences for workplace voice in Canada / Michele Campolieti, Rafael Gomez and Morley Gunderson.