The effect of teenage employment on character skills, expectationsand occupational choice strategies

Fuchs, Benjamin

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Fuchs, Benjamin

The effect of teenage employment on character skills, expectationsand occupational choice strategies

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URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-12844
URL: http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/volltexte/2016/1284/

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Arbeit , Charakterbildung , Heranwachsender

Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch):

human capital , teenage employment , non-cognitive skills , time use , treatment effect

Institut:

Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre

DDC-Sachgruppe:

Wirtschaft

Dokumentart:

ResearchPaper

Schriftenreihe:

Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences

Bandnummer:

2016,14

Sprache:

Englisch

Erstellungsjahr:

2016

Publikationsdatum:

03.11.2016

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Veröffentlichungsvertrag mit der Universitätsbibliothek Hohenheim

Kurzfassung auf Englisch:

A growing body of research suggests that, even after controlling for cognitive abilities, personality predicts economic success in later life. The learning environment at school focuses on knowledge and cognitive skills. The transmission of character skills, however, is not at the center of attention. Leisure activities as informal learning activities outside of school may affect the formation of skills. By providing valuable opportunities, working part-time while attending full-time secondary schooling can be seen as a stepping stone toward independence and adulthood. The channel of the positive influence, however has not been identified empirically. I suggest that employment during adolescence promotes the formation of character skills that are known to have a positive effect on labor market outcomes and educational achievement. Employing a exible strategy combining propensity score matching and regression techniques to account for self-selection, I find beneficial e ects on character skills. Further, it improves future expectations, the knowledge on which skills and talents school students have and reduces the importance of parents advice with respect to their childs future career. The results are robust to several model specifications and varying samples and robust to including family-fixed effects.