Every day, acts of violence injure over 6,000 people in the U.S. Despite decades of social science arguing that joblessness among disadvantaged youth is a key cause of violent offending, programs to remedy youth unemployment do not consistently reduce delinquency. This study tests whether summer jobs, which shift focus from remediation to prevention, can reduce crime. In a randomized controlled...

The Northern Swedish Cohort was started by Anne Hammarström [principal investigator (PI)] in collaboration with Urban Janlert and other researchers within the field of social medicine (Ragnar Berfenstam, Finn Diderichsen, Töres Theorell, Lars H Gustafsson, Claes Sundelin, Gustav Jonsson). At that time, the PI was a newly qualified registered medical doctor and was searching for a PhD project. A...

In this research we show that workers aged 30-44 were significantly more likely than those aged 45-59 to find a job a year after being unemployed. The main contribution is demonstrating empirically that since older workers' difficulties are related to their age, while for younger individuals the difficulties are more related to the business cycle, policy makers must devise different programs to...

In this article, the author studies concept of political stability and analyzes factors youth that affect stability. To date, world’s population is increasing, young people occupy main cohort. regard, they are both a positive resource negative one. According to research, propensity terrorist protest activity because state not able meet needs people. particular, policy understood as system measu...

An increase in the share of youth in the working age population of one state or region relative to the rest of the United States causes a sharp reduction in that state’s relative unemployment rate and a modest increase in its labor force participation rate. This is inconsistent with many theories of the labor market, but can be easily explained by a model of frictional unemployment with on-the-...

The Northern Swedish Cohort was started by Anne Hammarström [principal investigator (PI)] in collaboration with Urban Janlert and other researchers within the field of social medicine (Ragnar Berfenstam, Finn Diderichsen, Töres Theorell, Lars H Gustafsson, Claes Sundelin, Gustav Jonsson). At that time, the PI was a newly qualified registered medical doctor and was searching for a PhD project. A...

OBJECTIVES The unemployed are assumed to adopt unhealthy behaviours, including harmful use of alcohol. This study sought to elucidate the relations between unemployment before age 21 years and consumption of alcohol from 21 to 42 years. The design was based on the conception of youth as a sensitive period for obtaining 'drinking scars' that are visible up to middle age. SETTING The Northern S...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To investigate the long term effects of early unemployment (a total of more than half a year of unemployment between the ages of 16 and 21) on health behaviour and psychological and somatic symptoms. DESIGN A 14 year follow up of a cohort of school leavers was conducted from 1981 to 1995. Information was collected by questionnaires. SETTING An industrial town in northern Swe...

College education has been shown to improve the labor market success of young people. Using data from the 1997 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, I estimate a wage model and an unemployment model where respondents are grouped according to their degree attainment and college attendance. I find that associate degrees recipients get paid by 21-23 percent more than high school graduates while a...