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Gong, Xiaodong; Cassells, Rebecca; Duncan, Alan – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2012
Combining school study with part-time or casual work is an increasing trend for Australian high school students. For some, it is a way of earning some extra cash and having a bit of freedom from their parents, or it is an opportunity to get some experience in an occupation they are interested in. This paper looks at the impact that working while…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Enrollment Influences, Youth, Foreign Countries
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Messner, Steven F.; Bjarnason, Thoroddur; Raffalovich, Lawrence E.; Robinson, Bryan K. – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2006
Using pooled, time-series data for a sample of 15 developed nations, we assess the effect of divorce rates on gender-specific suicide rates for youths aged 15-19 with models of relative cohort size, lagged nonmarital fertility, and an interaction term for divorce rates and nonmarital fertility. The results reveal that, for young men, relative…
Descriptors: One Parent Family, Divorce, Youth, Suicide
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Connolly, Paul – British Educational Research Journal, 2006
This article is based upon a secondary analysis of three successive cohorts of the Youth Cohort Study of England and Wales and examines the effects of social class and ethnicity on gender differences in General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE) attainment for those who left school in 1997, 1999 and 2001 respectively. The article shows that…
Descriptors: Social Class, Ethnicity, Gender Differences, Foreign Countries