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| Title: | | The relative importance of local labour market conditions and pupil attainment on post-compulsory schooling decisions  |
| Authors: | | Meschi, Elena Swaffield, Joanna Vignoles, Anna |
| Issue Date: | | 2011 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion Paper series, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 6143 |
| Abstract: | | This paper assesses the relative importance of local labour market conditions and pupil educational attainment as primary determinants of the post-compulsory schooling decision. Using a nested logit model we formally incorporate the structured and sequential decision process pupils engage with. Our findings show that, on average, the key drivers of the schooling decision are pupil educational attainment and parental aspirations rather than local labour market conditions. However, there is some evidence that higher local unemployment rates encourage males to invest in education, and that interactions with educational attainment suggest local labour market conditions impact heterogeneously across the pupil population. |
| Subjects: | | post-compulsory education local labour markets parental aspirations educational attainment nested logit |
| JEL: | | I21 J18 J24 |
| Persistent Identifier of the first edition: | | urn:nbn:de:101:1-2012010913631 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA)
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