Better late than never? How late completion affects the early careers of dropouts.

Autor/inn/en	Albæk, Karsten; Asplund, Rita; Barth, Erling; Lindahl, Lena; Strøm, Marte; Vanhala, Pekka
Institution	Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit
Titel	Better late than never? How late completion affects the early careers of dropouts. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Besser spät als nie? Wie nachgeholte Schulabschlüsse die Berufseinmündung von Schulabbrechern beeinflussen.
Quelle	Bonn (2019), 39 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	IZA discussion paper. 12560
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	2365-9793
Schlagwörter	Bildungsertrag; Schule; Bildungsabschluss; Arbeitslosenquote; Arbeitslosigkeit; Zweiter Bildungsweg; Internationaler Vergleich; Abbruch; Auswirkung; Quote; Junger Erwachsener; Dänemark; Finnland; Norwegen; Schweden
Abstract	"Across the OECD countries, dropouts from upper secondary schooling fare worse in the labor market, with higher NEET rates more spells of unemployment and lower earnings. Among the dropouts, there are however significant shares who complete at a later age. In this paper, we thus ask the question: Does it pay for young adults who do not complete upper secondary schooling by the age of 21, to do so at some point during the subsequent 7 years, that is, before turning 28? In all four Nordic countries under scrutiny, we find that late completion lowers the probability of being outside employment, education or training (NEET) at age 28. Moreover, the exact age of completion does not seem to matter. Our estimates are robust to the inclusion of extensive controls for socioeconomic background and early schooling paths, and similar to the ones produced by event history analysis with individual fixed effects. This indicates that late completion of upper secondary schooling plays an important role for the labor market inclusion of young dropouts." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2020/1