Saved by the bell? The effects of compulsory schooling laws on self-employment and earnings in Australia

Extending the research on secondary education and entrepreneurship, we ask whether compulsory schooling laws influence selection into and earnings from self-employment. We exploit the increase in the minimum school-leaving age from 14 to 15 in the mid-1960s in Victoria and South Australia. The findi...

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Published inJournal of evolutionary economics Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 227 - 296
Main Author Patel, Pankaj C.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2024
Springer Nature B.V
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