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

Publication type

Journal Article

Authors

Publication date

November 15, 2012

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.

Published in

Economics Letters

Volume and page numbers

Volume: 117 , p.389 -393

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2012.06.018

ISSN

1651765

Subjects

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