ABSTRACT
Work is perhaps the single most common out-of-school activity among America's teenagers. Data from "High School and Beyond" (HS&-B), a national representative study of high-school students, indicate that 90 percent of American high-school teenagers will be employed at some time during the course of their secondary-school experience (Sebring et al. 1986). The number of teenagers currently working in the United States is considerable: Census statistics reveal that slightly more than half of America's teenagers (51.3 percent) ages sixteen to nineteen who are enrolled in secondary school are also paid workers (U.S. Department of Labor 1993).
