The Teen Summer Job Is Back Alicia Sasser Modestino, an economist at Northeastern University, told me, adding that some employers are bringing back teens for repeated summers and giving them more responsibility each year.
CNBC ‘The summer job is back’: Teens enter the labor force as employers dish out higher wages, perks “The summer job is back,” said Alicia Sasser Modestino, an associate professor of economics who studies youth development at Northeastern University. “I remember being completely dead wrong in summer of 2021 when I said, ‘Teenagers: just run out, grab these jobs, because this is not going to last.’”
Christian Science Monitor Teen summer jobs are back. What’s behind the return of a rite of passage? “Employers suddenly rediscovered teenagers as an important source of labor in the post-COVID economy, when adults realized they didn’t want to come back,” says Alicia Sasser Modestino, associate professor at Northeastern University, who has been surveying Boston’s summer employment program for nearly a decade.
The Irish Times Record number of teenagers seeking summer jobs ‘plugging the gap’ for employers Alan Barrett, director of the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) points to studies done by the Department of Economics at Northeastern University in the US, which bear out Nolan’s positive experience. “A number of American cities tried programmes where inner city kids from more deprived backgrounds were set up in summer jobs.”
It is time to bring back the summer job. Here is why, and tips for finding one. In fact, a study from the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University showed teenagers who work while in high school have higher incomes later. Another study, by a team of neuroscientists, found people are much more careful when they manage their own money — such as that earned from a summer job — than they are when they handle other […]
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 […]
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 […]
Sad summer in the city seen for U.S. job-hunting teens Job-hunting teenagers in cities across the United States face the third bleak summer in a row. They must compete for scarce slots in scaled-back government work programs and against adults forced into low-paying positions by the unemployment crisis.
PBS Summer Jobs are Scarce for Teens It`s Wednesday afternoon at this mall in Garden City, New York and you could play catch in the parking lot. A slow shopping center is hardly conclusive evidence of a weak economy, but some experts say it`s no surprise given other signs of lackluster activity. The housing market remains in the cellar. Sales are down […]