This report provides the first quantitative evidence on the characteristics and outcomes of gap year takers in the UK. It does so by using two rich survey datasets: the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE), which follows a cohort of young people as they make decisions about whether or not to enter higher education (HE) and whether or not to take a gap year at the height of the recent recession, and the British Cohort Study (BCS), which follows the population of individuals born in Great Britain in a particular week of April 1970, who were first eligible to enter HE in September 1988.
These two datasets together enable an assessment of the intentions, activities and characteristics of a recent cohort of gap year takers and the long term consequences of the decision to delay entry into HE for a range of outcomes, with a particular focus on wages and earnings.
Includes:
- Introduction
- Data
- Methodology
- Gap year takers in the LSYPE
- Gap year takers in the BCS and the long-run effects of gap years
- Conclusions
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