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Youth initiation into the labor market
Lynn Huang
Research Scientist, National Opinion Research Center, Washington, DC;
Michael Pergamit
Research Vice President, National Opinion Research Center, Washington, DC;
E-mail: pergamit@norcmail.uchicago.edu
Jamie Shkolnik
Senior Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research, Palo Alto, CA.
About half of 12- and 13-year-olds surveyed engage in some sort of work;
such work is more likely among youths from higher socio-economic backgrounds
or who have engaged in ‘delinquent’ behaviors
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