March 14 (Bloomberg) — If you are a teenager looking for a job in the past decade, the Provo-Orem, Utah, area was the place to be. Among America's 100 largest metro areas, it alone had a greater share of teens working in 2012 than in 2000, a new Brookings Institution analysis finds.
Home to Brigham Young University, Provo-Orem saw the employment rate for 16- to 19-year-olds climb 0.6 point to 48.6 percent by 2012. Pittsburgh, the second-best performer, showed a 5.1 point drop to 35.1 percent from 40.2 percent.
The worst performer was the Cape Coral and Fort Myers area of Florida, where the employment rate for teens slumped 27.4 points to 25.2 percent. The bottom of the list was dominated by metropolitan areas with generally weaker labor markets, a trend that bodes poorly for those areas' future workforces.
"If everyone is having a hard time in the labor market, young people are even more so," said Martha Ross, a fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington and an author of the report. "Work experience begets work, so it's a cause for concern for how they're going to do in the labor market down the line."
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