The effect of summer jobs on post-schooling incomes.

Autor/inn/en	Carling, Kenneth; Nääs, Ola; Alam, Moudad
Institution	Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk Utvärdering
Titel	The effect of summer jobs on post-schooling incomes. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Der Effekt von Ferienjobs auf das Einkommen nach der Schulzeit.
Quelle	Uppsala (2013), 21 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Reihe	Institute for Evaluation of Labour Market and Education Policy. Working paper. 2013/25
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
ISSN	1651-1166
Schlagwörter	Gymnasium; Sekundarbereich; Schüler; Ferienarbeit; Staatlicher Sektor; Beschäftigungseffekt; Einkommenseffekt; Einkommenshöhe; Berufserfahrung; Nebenverdienst; Berufsanfänger; Schweden
Abstract	In part because of high youth unemployment, students' transition from school to work is an important policy and research topic. Public programs offering summer jobs or work while in high school as measures to smooth the transition is commonplace. The immediate effect of the programs on school attendance, school grades, and disposable income is well documented. However, their effect on the transition to the labor market remains unsettled, partly because of a potential selection bias in previous observational studies. In this paper, 2650 first graders of high school in Falun Council, Sweden, randomly allotted summer jobs via a program in the years of 1997-2003, are followed ten years after graduation. The program led to a substantially larger accumulation of work experience while in high school for offered (particularly weak academically performing) females, but not for offered males. Hence, the immediate program effect was heterogeneous. Females were used to estimate the causal effect of work experience while in high school on post-schooling incomes. The (statistically) significant estimate implies an elasticity of 0.4. Work experience while in high school seems to be of future benefit, but the elasticity is potentially inflated due to heterogeneous effects that we were unable to account for. (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku).
Erfasst von	Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung, Nürnberg
Update	2014/2