Alicia Sasser Modestino

Economist Alicia Sasser Modestino from Northeastern University called the under-20 crowd “the last to be hired, the first to be fired” when the labor market cools.

ALICIA SASSER MODESTINO, an economist at Northeastern University in Boston, on employers freezing roles or cutting seasonal positions, hitting teenagers the hardest.

“If you look at youth unemployment before the pandemic, that’s pretty much where we’re headed,” said Alicia Sasser Modestino, a labor economist at Northeastern University who studies teenage employment.

Uncertainty about the economy is a major reason, said Alicia Sasser Modestino, an economist at Northeastern University in Boston. 

“This is what teaches good work habits,” said Alicia Modestino, a professor of public policy at Northeastern University.

Alicia Modestino is an expert in youth employment at Northeastern University.

Economist Alicia Modestino of Northeastern University is also affiliated with J-PAL. For decades, she says, the Boston Summer Youth Employment Program has aimed “to reduce inequality of opportunity by increasing access to early employment experiences for disadvantaged youth.” 

Alicia Modestino, Associate Professor of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, and Economics at Northeastern University, where she also serves as Research Director of the Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy, joins EconoFact Chats.

“As much as I think the Fed tries to say that they’re not a political animal, we are in a really wild cycle right now,” Alicia Modestino, an associate professor of economics at Northeastern University, told AFP.

Op-ed by Alicia Modestino, the executive director of Community to Community, a new research initiative at Northeastern University that uses data and analysis to design, implement and evaluate public policies to push the needle forward on complex problems found in urban areas.