TY  - JOUR
AU  - Rees,Albert E.
AU  - Gray,Wayne B.
TI  - Family Effects in Youth Employment
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 396
PY  - 1979
Y2  - October 1979
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0396
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w0396.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Wayne B. Gray
Department of Economics
Clark University
950 Main Street
Worcester, MA 01610
Tel: 508/793-7693
Fax: 508/793-8849
E-Mail: WGRAY@CLARKU.EDU
M1  - published as Albert Rees, Wayne Gray. "Family Effects in Youth Employment," in Richard B. Freeman and David A. Wise, eds., "The Youth Labor Market Problem: Its Nature, Causes, and Consequences" University of Chicago Press (1982)

AB  - The authors begin with the hypothesis that parental contacts play a major role in finding jobs for youth. This hypothesis is tested with a model of youth employment that includes characteristics of other family members in addition to a large set of control variables. Particular attention is paid to parental characteristics that might indicate a parent's ability to assist the youth in finding a job, including occupation, industry and education. The effects of such variables are generally not significant and do not support the initial hypothesis. However, the employment probability of a youth is significantly affected by the presence of employed siblings, indicating the presence of some intrafamily effects.
ER  -