Adapting to Circumstances: The Evolution of Work, School, and Living Arrangements Among North American Youth

David Card and Thomas Lemieux

No 6142, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: We use comparable micro data sets for the U.S. and Canada to study the responses of young workers to the external labor market forces that have affected the two countries over the past 25 years. We find that young workers adjust to changes in labor market opportunities through a variety of mechanisms, including changes in living arrangements, changes in school enrollment, and changes in work effort. In particular, we find that poor labor market conditions in Canada explain why the fraction of youth living with their parents has increased in Canada relative to the U.S. recently. Paradoxically, this move back home also explains why the relative position of Canadian youth in the distribution of family income did not deteriorate as fast as in the U.S.

Date: 1997-08
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Published as Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries, Blanchflower, D.,and R. Freeman, eds., Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Published as Adapting to Circumstances (The Evolution of Work, School,and Living Arrangements among North American Youth) , David Card, Thomas Lemieux. in Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries , Blanchflower and Freeman. 2000

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