Declining Teen Employment: Minimum Wages, Other Explanations, and Implications for Human Capital Investment

David Neumark

No 7392, Working Papers from George Mason University, Mercatus Center

Abstract: The labor force participation and employment rate of young adults in the United States have declined sharply in recent years, especially among teenagers. For example, from 1994 to 2015, the participation rate of teens (aged 16-19) fell from 52.7 to 34.0

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Date: 2018-02-07
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