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Title: Is High School Employment Consumption or Investment?
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Ruhm, Christopher J. |
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Is High School Employment Consumption or Investment? Journal of Labor Economics 15,4 (October 1997): 735-776. Also: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/209844 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Keyword(s): Education, Secondary; Employment, In-School; Employment, Part-Time; Employment, Youth; High School This study examines how high school employment affects future economic attainment. There is no indication that light to moderate job commitments ever have a detrimental effect; instead, hours worked during the senior grade are positively correlated with future earnings, fringe benefits, and occupational stems. These gains occur even though employed seniors attain slightly less education than their counterparts. The results are robust across a variety of specifications and suggest that student employment increases net investments in human capital particularly toward the end of high school and for females. The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. |
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Ruhm, Christopher J. "Is High School Employment Consumption or Investment?" Journal of Labor Economics 15,4 (October 1997): 735-776.
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