Journal Article

The raising of the school leaving age: returns in later life

By Franz Buscha and Matt Dickson

Publication details

Publication date
Published in
Economics Letters
Volume
117
Pages
pp. 389–393
Publisher
Elsevier
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2012.06.018
ISSN
1651765

Summary

Using the recently released UK Household Longitudinal Study we examine whether the raising of the school leaving age in 1972 had a permanent impact on earnings for individuals in their early 50s.

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