Christian Dustmann, Najma Rajah and Stephen Smith (1997): "Teenage truancy,
part-time working and wages", Journal of Population Economics, Vol
10, No 4, pp 425-42.
Abstract
Part-time work whilst still in full-time education is common in many industrialized countries,
and teenagers constitute a significant component of the work force in some sectors of the
labour market. In Britain in the early 1990s some 60 per cent of 16 - 18 year olds still in
full-time education also worked part-time. Although the determinants of teenager
participation in the labour market have been studied previously (both in the United States
and the United Kingdom), there remain a number of neglected questions. We address
some of these in this paper, basing our analysis on data taken from the UK National Child
Development Study. We first examine how teenagers divide their time between working
and studying. We further analyse what explains teenage wages and labour supply. We
utilise a rich set of variables describing parental background, as well as parents' labour
force status and draw on information about physical stature to explain variations in
wages.