Studies concerned with youth education and their labour market activities usually refer to the concept of transition as a situation where young people leave school to enter into the labour market. This concept suggests a one-way transition, but there can be many more types of transition. For...

Unemployment of the unqualified young workers in Canada has always been a preoccupation and is doomed to increase with the mondialisation of the economy. The first source of non qualification is to dropout of school. In this paper, we consider the effect of working while in school on the...

In this paper, we consider the effect of working while in school on the probability of dropping out at the secondary level. The difference between this version and an earlier version of this question discussed in Dagenais et al (1998), Travail pendant les études et abandon scolaire : causes,...