The impact of students' part-time work on educational outcomes

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This paper addresses the issue of school students' part-time employment in the last year of compulsory education, and its impact on educational outcomes. Estimating the causal effect is not straightforward. Firstly, those who obtain part-time employment could have certain unobservable characteristics, which also have an impact on their educational outcomes. Secondly, the decisions to work part-time while still in school and to continue education after age 16 might be made simultaneously, which leads to a problem with endogeneity. To account for this, I apply an instrumental approach and a recursive bivariate probit estimation. My results suggest that working part-time during the last year of compulsory education has a negative impact on educational achievements and on participation in education in the subsequent year.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: ISER Working Paper Series ; No. 2014-42

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Subject: students' labour supply ; educational attainment ; exam results ; post-compulsory education participation

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Rokicka, Magdalena
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)
• (where): Colchester
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/126485
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET