Local unemployment and the timing of post-secondary schooling

Hans Sievertsen

Economics of Education Review, 2016, vol. 50, issue C, 17-28

Abstract: Using Danish administrative data on all high school graduates from 1984 to 1992, I show that local unemployment has both a short- and a long-run effect on school enrollment and completion. The short-run effect causes students to advance their enrollment, and consequently their completion, of additional schooling. The long-run effect causes students who would otherwise never have enrolled to enroll and complete schooling. The effects are strongest for children of parents with no higher education.

Keywords: Demand for schooling; Post-secondary education; Local labor markets (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I24 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econedurev.2015.11.002

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