Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20499 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1235
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In many industrialised countries, teenagers have a significant spending power, and they are important customers for specialised industries. The income of teenagers still in full time education comes from two major sources: parental pocket money, and earnings from part time jobs. Little is known about the way these sources interact, and how they depend on parental, school and family characteristics. In this paper, we analyse labour supply of 16 year old British teenagers together with the cash transfers made to them by their parents. We develop a theoretical model, which serves as a basis for the empirical specification in which labour supply and transfers are jointly determined. We estimate this model using unique data on labour supply of teenagers, the wages they receive, and transfers made to them by their parents. We show how these two processes depend on each other, and how transfers and labour supply react to changes in wages.
Subjects: 
intra-household transfers
teenager labour supply
JEL: 
J22
C7
C35
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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