NLS@50

Commemorating the 50^th anniversary of
the National Longitudinal Surveys

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Harry Holzer

Professor

Public Policy Institute, Georgetown University

NLS user since 1980

Citations

Holzer, Harry J. 1987. "Informal Job Search and Black Youth Unemployment." American Economic Review, June.
Holzer, Harry J. 1988. "Search Method Use by Unemployed Youth." Journal of Labor Economics, January.
Holzer, Harry J. 1986. "Reservation Wages and their Labor Market Effects for White and Minority Youth." Journal of Human Resources, Spring.
Holzer, Harry J. 1987. "Job Search Among Employed and Unemployed Youth." Industrial and Labor Relations Review, July.
Holzer, Harry J. 1986. "Black Youth Nonemployment: Duration and Job Search." In R. Freeman and H. Holzer eds. The Black Youth Employment Crisis. University of Chicago Press.
Holzer, Harry J.; Keith Ihlanfeldt and David Sjoquist. 1994. "Work, Search and Travel among White and Black Youth." Journal of Urban Economics. May.

What I learned from NLS data

The body of work I did provided some of the best estimates available on the determinants of success (or the lack thereof) of job search for white and minority youth, based on some outstanding questions on search plus detailed data on their subsequent employment outcomes.

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Resources

This site was created at the Center for Human Resource Research (CHRR) at The Ohio State University to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS). The NLS is a program of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. CHRR has conducted the NLS since the program began in 1965, in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau (from 1965 to 2003) and NORC at the University of Chicago (from 1978 to the present).