By Jay Fitzgerald – A blog about Boston, Hub of the Universe, and everything else.


Summer jobs and those lazy teens: It’s not what you think

At the WSJ, Roland Fryer, an economics professor at Harvard, blows away all the laments about today’s youths and how fewer of them have summer jobs. There’s actually a good news/bad news explanation for the decades-long decline in summer teen employment. Among other things, he uses Cape Cod ice cream parlors to make his point. … 

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