Will school enrollment drop if employment increases?
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https://doi.org/10.22325/fes/res.2018.10Keywords:
Opportunity cost and school enrollment, employment and education, income classes, equality of opportunityAbstract
With EUSILC and PHUE data, I examine how closely changes in school enrollment followed economic changes during the last economic cycle and whether recent increases in schooling have been lower among the poorest. Instead of enrollment rates and monetary opportunity costs I consider four categories of youths (student, working, jobless, non-active) and look at their evolution from 2005 to 2015 for two age groups (17-8 and 19-21 years) and five income groups. I find that school enrollment closely follows employment decreases along the whole period, except that in 2013-2015 school enrollment kept growing at ages 19-21 when employment stopped falling; that schooling increases unrelated to household income at ages 17-18, but with a quite intricate relationship at ages 19-21; that equality of scholastic enrollment grew during the last economic crisis, and, finally, that no effects of the recent educational policies are detectable.
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