Is high school employment consumption or investment?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Ruhm, CJ
• 署名单位: National Bureau of Economic Research
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF LABOR ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0734-306X
• DOI: 10.1086/209844
• 发表日期: 1997
• 页码: 735-776
• 关键词: part-time employment; academic-achievement; work experience; students; college; IMPACT; youth; wages

摘要

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 status. 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.