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The social and economic determinants of children's work in the United States: 1950 to the present
Abstract
This study examines the social and economic determinants of fourteen to seventeen year-olds in the contemporary U.S. Data derived from the U.S. Census Bureau's Current Population Survey and the National Commission on Children's 1990 survey of U.S. families were used to assess whether teenagers' employment may be viewed as the interplay between demand factors, which govern the availability of appropriate jobs for teenagers, supply factors, which govern their willingness and ability to work, and social constraints, which mitigate the effects of the proposed model. The results indicate that teenagers are a key reserve labor force usurped by adult workers when jobs are in short supply.
Subject Area
Sociology|Individual & family studies|Labor relations|Economic history
Recommended Citation
Denny, Elizabeth, "The social and economic determinants of children's work in the United States: 1950 to the present" (1992). Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest. AAI9305819.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9305819