Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/33264 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1801
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Transition patterns from school to work differ considerably across OECD countries. Some countries exhibit high youth unemployment rates, which can be considered an indicator of the difficulty facing young people trying to integrate into the labor market. At the same time, education is a time-consuming process, and enrolment and dropout decisions depend on expected duration of studies, as well as on job prospects with and without completed degrees. One way to model entry into the labor market is by means of job search models, where the job arrival hazard is a key parameter in capturing the ease or difficulty in finding a job. Standard models of job search and education assume that skills can be upgraded instantaneously (and mostly in the form of on-the-job training) at a fixed cost. This paper models education as a time-consuming process, a concept which we call time-to-educate, during which an individual faces the trade-off between continuing education and taking up a job.
Subjects: 
job search
education
enrollment
dropouts
JEL: 
E24
J31
J41
J64
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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