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Teenagers have stopped getting summer jobs – why?
First, the summer-job bump has declined for all ethnicities in the last 40 years. Second, summer jobs are the province of the white and wealthy. Children of richer families are more likely to take part-time in summer jobs, according to a report from the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University. But black and […]
National Journal
What happens when American teenagers can’t find work
Most Americans love to reminisce about their first paying job, whether it was scooping ice cream, babysitting, or working behind a retail counter. It was rarely glamorous, but earning that first paycheck was a point of pride and marked a milestone in a teenager’s life. By the time Andrew Sum entered his teenage years, he’d […]
PBS NewsHour
The day Reagan’s labor secretary admitted he was wrong about inequality
Reporting on the release of the monthly jobs numbers last Friday, we spoke with Northeastern University political economist Barry Bluestoneabout what he called generally good news: 200,000 people back to work and the unemployment rate down to 7 percent. But for those people “out of the economy,” in Bluestone’s words, or the long-term unemployed, of whom there are consistently about […]
PBS NewsHour
Rosier-than-expected jobs report doesn’t improve outlook for long-term jobless
We asked Northeastern University economist Barry Bluestone what he made of the numbers. BARRY BLUESTONE, Northeastern University: On balance, this was a good report today, over 200,000 people back to work. We have got the unemployment rate down from 7.3 percent to 7 percent. That’s all good news. Of course, many of those were federal […]
Summer Jobs Elude Many Teenagers
Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston, said the weak teen job situation is worsening existing racial and socioeconomic disparities in the labor market. Just one in four Hispanic teens worked this summer, and just one in five African-American ones. “Kids from low-income, minority backgrounds on the […]
Still tough for Mass. teens to find summer jobs
Beyond boosting a teen’s self-esteem, jobs for young people give them skills that prepare them for the workplace and full-time employment. A study released in July by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University found that having summer jobs made it less likely that low-income teens in Boston would engage in violence. But […]
The Lowell Sun
‘Recovery’ leaving jobless stranded
Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, said it now takes typical jobless workers about 30 weeks to land a new one. “We have never seen anything like this,” he told us recently. And the jobs people are find are often part-time positions. Sum noted that the spike in […]
Business West
Work in Progress
When asked why he became involved, Peters referenced a recent report authored by Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University, whom he’s heard speak a number of times on the subject of the importance of employment opportunities for young people. He said Sum’s message has always been consistent — […]
Experiences inspire student’s joblessness research
As many of his friends struggled to find jobs in 2009, Rand Ghayad, a PhD candidate in economics at Northeastern University, decided to search for answers to explain why smart, educated, and experienced people remained out of work for so long, despite hundreds of thousands of job vacancies. What he found after more than four […]
Job market improves for recent college graduates
Indeed, data from Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies show that young adults with degrees in engineering, math, and computer science are far more likely to get professional jobs that require college degrees than those with other majors. About 80 percent of such “technical” degree holders have college-level professional jobs, compared to just 59 […]
Making Summer Jobs Work For Teens
A report by Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies finds that less than 30 percent of U.S. teens had jobs in the summers of 2010 and 2011. Though the employment outlook is bleak, there are some strategies for navigating the summer job market.
The Baltimore Sun
Summer jobs program encourages businesses to Hire One Youth
Baltimore officials say young adults need a leg up into the workforce Just a third of Maryland teens worked last summer, compared with well over half in 2000, according to an analysis by the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. Nationwide, the slump was just as severe. The center says the […]