Part-time work, school success and school leaving

Christian Dustmann and Arthur Soest ()
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Arthur Soest: Tilburg University

A chapter in The Economics of Education and Training, 2008, pp 23-45 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we analyse part-time employment of teenagers still in full-time education, their academic performance, and their school leaving decisions. Our estimation strategy takes account of the possible interdependencies of these events and distinguishes between two alternative states to full time education: entering the labour force full time and going on to further training. We model this decision in a flexible way. Our analysis is based on data from the UK National Child Development Study, which has an unusually rich set of variables on school and parental characteristics. Our main finding is that working part time while in full-time education has only small adverse effects on exam performance for females, and no effects for males. The effect of part-time work on the decision to stay on at school is also negative, but small, and marginally significant for males, but not for females. Other important determinants of exam success as well as the continuation decision are parental ambitions about the child’s future academic career.

Keywords: Teenage labour supply; Educational attainment; Training (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7908-2022-5_3

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