This article estimates a simple model of employment variation over the business cycle for eight major industrialized countries. It focuses on male teenagers. The main result is that, in six of the eight countries considered, male teenage employment is cyclicalThis article estimates a simple model of employment variation over the business cycle for eight major industrialized countries. It focuses on male teenagers. The main result is that, in six of the eight countries considered, male teenage employment is cyclically more responsive than adult employment.[+][-]