Determinantes das decisões de estudar e de participar do mercado de trabalho para os jovens no Brasil

Abstract

Human capital is one of the main characteristic that affects individual’s productive. It’s level is affected by the decisions of schooling and entering in the labour market. Given the importance of young people in the labour market and the particularities about their decision to study and to engage in the labour market in comparison with other age groups, this study aims to observe the determinants of the decision to study and/or participate in the labour market for young Brazilians aged 15 to 29 in the year 2015. In order to reach this goal, the multinomial logit econometric method was applied in order to find the probability that young workers would leave the “nem-nem” category, in which they neither study nor participate in the labour market, and pass to the other categories, which involve schooling and / or participation in the labour market. As for the results, we found that the education of the young people, the head of household's education and the household income are the factors that exert a greater influence on the chances of young people participating in the labor market and schooling.