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"High school jobs may also be quite beneficial for those youth who are less interested in college, and do not have the familial or personal resources (high aspirations and engagement in school) to successfully pursue a four-year college degree"

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"Youth themselves think that employment helps them to develop a wide range of beneficial attributes, such as the capacity to take responsibility, develop time-management skills, overcome shyness with adults, and handle money."

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"The most obvious potential benefits are those to the learning of "practical information" about the business world, money, and consumer transactions. These types of learning may be more easily acquired through working than through schooling."

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Steinberg, Laurence. "High School Students in Labor Force: Some Costs and Benefits to Schooling and Learning." Sage Journals, Vol. 4, No. 3, 1982, pp.. Google Scholar, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/01623737004003363.

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"Thus, researchers have examined whether youngsters who have worked part-time during their school years have greater success in obtaining and holding full-time jobs after leaving school, and whether part-time job experience during the school years selectively improves the future employment prospects of minority youth (Parnes, 1974; Stephenson, Note 1.)"

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"Employment can have both negative and positive effects, and many of the differences between teenagers who work at high and low levels of intensity may be attributable to self-selection. We find evidence, however, that work experience can promote the healthy development of some young people, especially when it is moderate in intensity and steady in duration"

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"In contrast, the more academically talented youngsters may learn this information as well without experiential support."

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Mortimer, Jaylan. "The Benefits and Risks of Adolescent Employment." National Library of Medicine, vol. 17, no. 2, 1 Jan. 2010 pp.. Google Scholar, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2936460/.

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Much controversy surrounds the consequences of adolescent paid work, with researchers coming to diverse conclusions about whether work is good, work is bad, work doesn’t matter (the purported effects of employment are spurious, dependent on processes…

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"Those who choose to work long hours, in contrast, already engage in more problem behavior, are less interested in school, and get lower grades even at the start of high school (Staff et al., 2009)."

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"Most parents like the idea of their children working, as they think that employment instills a whole array of positive traits, including independence, responsibility, interpersonal skills, and a good work ethic (Phillips & Sandstrom, 1990)."

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