Minimum Wages and the Employment of Young Women

过去大多数关于最低工资对青年就业影响的研究只关注男性，或者没有对男性和女性进行区分。该项目的目的是通过研究全国青年纵向调查（NLSY）中6,398名年轻女性的劳动力市场经验来填补我们在这方面的知识空白。衡量就业效应的一个指标是毕业后找到第一份工作所需的时间。如果年轻女性在离开学校后退出劳动力市场或难以找到工作，其影响可能会持续到她的生活中。因此，这第一个失业期具有内在的意义。在以后的工作中，将分析随后的就业历史，以及决定终止或继续学业的决定因素。由于一些原因，这项研究的结果将引起人们的兴趣。首先，人们对最低工资对年轻妇女就业的影响知之甚少。其次，没有任何关于最低工资对就业影响的研究使用了最近的美国数据。NLSY还包含了比以前的研究能够考虑到的关于青少年家庭和社区背景的更详细的信息。最后，NLSY对黑人和西班牙裔进行了抽样调查，因此可以按种族进行详细分析。

Most past research on the youth employment effects of the minimum wage focuses only in men, or makes no distinction between men and women. The aim of this project is to fill this gap in our knowledge by examining the labor market experience of the 6,398 young women survey in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY). A measure of employment effects will be the time it takes to get a first job after leaving school. If the young woman drops out of the labor market or has difficulty finding a job after leaving school, the effects are likely to persist in alter life. Hence, this first spell of non-employment is of intrinsic interest. In later work, subsequent employment histories will be analyzed and the as will the determinants of the decision to terminate or continue schooling. The results of the research will be of interest for a umber of reasons. First, little is known about the effects of the minimum wage on the employment of young women. Second, there has not been any work on employment effects of the minimum wage which uses recent American data. The NLSY also includes much more detailed information about the family and community background of the teenagers than previous studies have been able to take into account. Finally, the NLSY over-samples blacks and hispanics so it will be possible to do a detailed analysis by race.