Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/21378 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 550
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Over the past 30 years, participation in Further Education (FE) in England has been markedly counter-cyclical. What is more, it has yet to increase beyond the peak of 70% reached in 1993, much to the concern of policy-makers. An obvious explanation for these facts is the availability of labour market opportunities, as measured by youth unemployment. Other things equal, the higher is youth unemployment, the more inclined young people will be to participate in FE. To assess this claim, we construct a 20-year panel of regional-level data. In line with this simple story, we find youth unemployment effects that are at least twice as large as those previously estimated, and that can explain the absence of any post-1993 increase, at least for boys. Other interesting findings concern the role of national returns to participation for boys, and cohort size for girls.
Subjects: 
human capital
further education
local labour markets
JEL: 
J24
I28
I21
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
652.82 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.