The Effect of College Employment on Graduation: Evidence from France

Fougère, Denis, Magali Beffy and Arnaud Maurel
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Denis Fougere

No 9565, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: This paper investigates the effect of employment while in college on graduation, using data from the French Labour Force Surveys over the period 1992 to 2002. Using spatial variation in low-skill youth unemployment rates to circumvent the endogeneity of college employment decisions, we find a significant and very large detrimental effect of working while in college on graduation probability. We argue that this may be due to the lack of flexibility of the French university system, which does not offer much complementarity between schooling and in-school employment.

Keywords: Bivariate probit models; Post-secondary educational attainment; Students; Labour supply (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C35 I20 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-07
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