ABSTRACT

In this study, we examine how student employment impacts higher educational trajectories in France. Focussing on undergraduates’ educational outcomes, we show the consequences of different intensities and levels of recurrence of student employment on perseverance in higher education. We use data from a nationally representative four-year longitudinal survey, descriptive analysis and logistic regression are performed to control for student characteristics. Our results suggest that student employment, especially when intensive and during periods of exams, increases exam failure. When it is recurrent over time, student employment often leads to university dropout. Furthermore, even for those who do manage to reconcile work and study, it lengthens the time spent in higher education. This consequence is particularly costly in France, where success in higher education is often judged by time-to-completion, encouraging strategies that lead to finishing degree requirements as quickly as possible. This approach is difficult to follow for students who must combine work and study, leading to particularly pronounced costs.

摘要

在这项研究中，我们研究了学生就业如何影响法国的高等教育轨迹。着眼于大学生的教育成果，我们展示了不同强度和水平的学生就业再出现对坚持不懈的高等教育的影响。我们使用来自全国代表性的四年纵向调查的数据，进行描述性分析和逻辑回归来控制学生的特征。我们的结果表明，学生的就业，特别是在强化训练和考试期间，会增加考试的失败率。随着时间的流逝，学生的就业往往会导致大学辍学。此外，即使对于那些设法兼顾工作和学习的人，这也会延长高等教育的时间。在法国，这种后果特别昂贵，高等教育的成功通常以完成时间来判断，因此鼓励采取能尽快完成学位要求的策略。对于必须将工作和学习结合起来的学生而言，这种方法很难遵循，从而导致特别明显的成本。