Abstract
Summer Youth Employment Programs in the United States provide meaningful work experience to hundreds of thousands of young people each year. While quantitative data point to successes of increased numbers of participation, wage growth for participants over time, and a broadening of industries and employers, qualitative data on how youth are navigating work and work identity have been limited. By applying the capabilities approach to an assessment of the experiences of Summer Youth Employment Program participants, we glean how these programs are creating real opportunity to learn and work, a greater sense of occupational identity and self-efficacy, and tangible skills that have value in both school and the workplace.
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Anderson, N.S., Nieves, L. (2020). “I Am Working and Learning”: Expanding Freedoms to Achieve Through Summer Youth Employment. In: Working to Learn. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35350-6_3
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