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Download full textCongress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources. – 1985
This Congressional report contains the testimony given at a hearing pertaining to passage of the Youth Employment Opportunity Wage Act of 1985. (The act, which would terminate in September 1987, would authorize an employer to pay a subminimum, "youth employment opportunity wage" to a person under 20 years of age.) Included among those…
Descriptors: Employment Opportunities, Employment Patterns, Employment Practices, Federal Legislation
Welch, Finis – 1971
(1) Estimates of the "typical" industrial distribution of fluctuations in total U.S. Employment about long run trends are provided with evidence of secular drift that results in employment becoming less sensitive to changes in G.N.P. (2) A Model is presented to analyze the effects of minimum wage legislation with uneven industrial coverage on the…
Descriptors: Business Cycles, Employment Patterns, Federal Legislation, Minimum Wage Legislation
Peer reviewedMitchell, Daniel J. B.; Clapp, John – Journal of Human Resources, 1980
Federal policy toward youth is divided between those encouraging employment and child labor laws which govern employment of those from 14-17. This study deals with quantification of the impacts of child labor laws by using Census data to identify shifting employment toward occupations not covered by these laws. (Author/JOW)
Descriptors: Child Labor, Dropouts, Employment Patterns, Federal Regulation
