Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/126485 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ISER Working Paper Series No. 2014-42
Publisher: 
University of Essex, Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER), Colchester
Abstract: 
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.
Subjects: 
students' labour supply
educational attainment
exam results
post-compulsory education participation
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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