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Does Relative Age Affect Speed and Quality of Transition from School to Work?
Luca Fumarco
Alessandro Vandromme
Levi Halewyck
Eline Moens
Stijn Baert
出版
Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration
, 2022
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=4REmzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
We are the first to estimate the impact of relative age (i.e., the difference in classmates' ages) on both speed and quality of individuals' transition from education to the labour market. Moreover, we are the first to explore whether and how this impact passes through characteristics of students' educational career. We use rich data pertaining to schooling and to labour market outcomes one year after graduation to conduct instrumental variables analyses. We find that a one-year increase in relative age increases the likelihood of (i) being employed then by 3.5 percentage points, (ii) having a permanent contract by 5.1 percentage points, and (iii) having full-time employment by 6.5 percentage points. These relative age effects are partly mediated by intermediate outcomes such as having had a schooling delay at the age of sixteen or taking on student jobs. The final mediator is particularly notable as no earlier studies examined relative age effects on student employment.