Earning and Learning: Educational Policy and the Growth of Part-Time Wurk by Full-Time Pupils

(1996) - Christian Dustmann, John Micklewright, Najma Rajah, Stephen Smith

Journal: The journal of applied public economics
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Abstract

This paper draws on research funded by the Leverhulme Trust and by the ESRC Research Centre at IFS (grant no. M544285001). The authors are grateful to the editors and a referee for comments and to Lorraine Dearden for her advice and help with the National Child Development Study (NCDS) data. Data from the Family Expenditure Survey, made available by the Central Statistical Office (CSO) through the ESRC Data Archive, have been used by permission of the Controller of HMSO; NCDS data have been provided by the ESRC Data Archive. Neither the CSO nor the ESRC Data Archive bears any responsibility for the analysis or interpretation of the data reported here.

Notes

“The 'traditional' view, in both educational and labour-market policy, of the transition from education to employment centres on the school-leaving decision” (Dustmann et al., 1996, p. 79)

“There is, however, substantial evidence to suggest that for more and more teenagers,the transition from school to employment does not centre around a single event, school leaving. For many, there is a period of overlap between education and labour-force participation, during which individuals work part-time whilst remaining within the full-time education system” (Dustmann et al., 1996, p. 80)

“Amongst those 16-year-oldswith part-time jobs, modal earnings were in the range El42per week (the data are in banded form), and some 8 per cent of those working earned &6per week or more.’” On average, hours worked were between six and nine per week.” (Dustmann et al., 1996, p. 86)

“One way of disentangling the relative effects of various individual and household characteristics is to estimate a reduced-form probit model of the probability of participatio” (Dustmann et al., 1996, p. 86)