Equally Bad, Unevenly Distributed: Gender and the 'Black Box' of Student Employment.

ABSTRACT: Students comprise approximately four per cent of the UK labour force and as much as 20% in some occupations and jobs. Yet students' work is typically seen as marginal, secondary both to their current learning and future working biographies. Public and media attention on 'earning while learning' (EwL) tends to focus on the negative impacts of paid work on education. Meanwhile students' actual working conditions, occupations and employment experiences have received limited attention and constitute something of a 'black box'. We open that box by examining the paid work undertaken by full-time students. Through analysis of a national data set, we examine patterns with respect to employment rates, pay, hours, and occupations, as well as how these are gendered. We find a small 'studentness' pena

SUBMITTER: Zhong MR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12412076 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature