The ‘Gap Year’ in Australia: Incidence, Participant Characteristics and Outcomes

David Curtis

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The ‘Gap Year’ in Australia: Incidence, Participant Characteristics and Outcomes

David Curtis

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I report on the incidence of gap-taking-a year between secondary school and university-and find it has increased from about 10 per cent to almost 25 per cent of recent school-leaver university entrants. Gap-takers have lower school achievement scores than direct entrants. Non-metropolitan students are much more likely to take a gap year. I investigate evidence that gap-takers work in order to access the Youth Allowance benefit. Finally, I compare the course and career progression of gap-takers and non-gappers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	107-114
Number of pages	8
Journal	The Australian Economic Review
Volume	47
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8462.12054
Publication status	Published - Mar 2014

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