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Articles in August, 2001 issue of Monthly Labor Review

• Youth initiation into the labor market: 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
  by Lynn Huang
• Current labor statistics
• More spending on clothes
• Whither productivity
• Youth employment in the United States: data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 show substantial work activity among 14- and 15-year-olds
  by Donna S. Rothstein
• Erratum
• Ten occupations, 5 million jobs
• Health measures
• Youth employment during school: results from two longitudinal surveys; students who worked 20 or fewer hours per week during the school year were more likely to attend college; youths who worked a greater percentage of weeks during the school year worked
  by Donna S. Rothstein
• Tenure down for men, up for women
• Headquarters job
• The NLSY97: an introduction: the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 follows the lives of 12- to 16-year-olds as they make pivotal decisions regarding education and employment
  by Michael Horrigan
• Publications received
• The August review
• School-to-work programs: information from two surveys
  by Mary Joyce
• Wages highest in Middle Atlantic
• How government works
  by Joy K. Reynolds
• Women's employment rate varies by city
• Racial differences in youth employment: work experience at an early age positively impacts labor force attachment of different racial groups; however, racial gaps in employment that are present in the early teen years seem to continue into adulthood
  by Rosella M. Gardecki