Fatores condicionantes na decisão entre trabalhar e estudar dos jovens brasileiros.

Abstract

The present study aims to verify the conditioning factors in the decision between working and studying of Brazilian young people. The data are from the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD 2015), the sample is composed of young people aged between 14 and 24 years. The econometric model Probit Bivariate was applied, in which it analyzes that the decision to work and to study are activities concurrent in the decision of allocation of time of the young people. Among the results, it is well known that both in rural and urban areas, as the age of the young person advances, the probability of entering the labor market increases and the probability of studying is reduced. For the other variables, families with higher income and higher levels of schooling of the mother increase the chances of the youngsters only studying. The young people who neither study nor work are from mothers with low educational levels and low income per capita.