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

Fuchs, Benjamin

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

dc.contributor.author	Fuchs, Benjamin	de
dc.date.accessioned	2024-04-08T08:53:31Z
dc.date.available	2024-04-08T08:53:31Z
dc.date.created	2016-11-03
dc.date.issued	2016
dc.description.abstract	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.	en
dc.identifier.swb	479084874
dc.identifier.uri	https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/6084
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:bsz:100-opus-12844
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences; 2016,14
dc.rights.license	publ-mit-pod	en
dc.rights.license	publ-mit-pod	de
dc.rights.uri	http://opus.uni-hohenheim.de/doku/lic_mit_pod.php
dc.subject	Human capital	en
dc.subject	Teenage employment	en
dc.subject	Non-cognitive skills	en
dc.subject	Time use	en
dc.subject	Treatment effect	en
dc.subject.ddc	330
dc.subject.gnd	Arbeit	de
dc.subject.gnd	Charakterbildung	de
dc.subject.gnd	Heranwachsender	de
dc.title	The effect of teenage employment on character skills, expectationsand occupational choice strategies	de
dc.type.dcmi	Text	de
dc.type.dini	WorkingPaper	de
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	en
local.access	uneingeschränkter Zugriff	de
local.bibliographicCitation.publisherPlace	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.export.bibtex	@techreport{Fuchs2016, url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/6084}, author = {Fuchs, Benjamin}, title = {The effect of teenage employment on character skills, expectationsand occupational choice strategies}, year = {2016}, school = {Universität Hohenheim}, series = {Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences}, }
local.export.bibtexAuthor	Fuchs, Benjamin
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local.faculty.number	3	de
local.institute.number	520	de
local.opus.number	1284
local.series.issueNumber	2016,14
local.series.title	Hohenheim discussion papers in business, economics and social sciences
local.university	Universität Hohenheim	de
local.university.faculty	Faculty of Business, Economics and Social Sciences	en
local.university.faculty	Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften	de
local.university.institute	Institute for Economics	en
local.university.institute	Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre	de

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