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Early School Leavers in their Later
(Adult) Life and Social Consequences
Klaudija Šterman Ivančič
Synopsis
ESL holds many far-reaching effects for an individual’s overall qual-
ity of life: lower employability, income and savings, inferior (public)
health status, less risk aversion and increased criminality, less sup-
portive social capital, and reduced lifetime satisfaction. To success-
fully tackle ESL, it is therefore crucial for all actors involved to be
aware of the consequences and help combat ESL on time.
Summary
This article explains the long-term effects of ESL on different as-
pects of an individual’s personal and social life. In defining the con-
sequences of ESL, we start by examining Psacharopoulos’ (2007)
framework of ESL consequences and cost estimation, where the au-
thor refers to the private, social and fiscal impacts of ESL. Since here
we are mainly interested in those consequences with the greatest im-
pact on an individual’s personal life (personal consequences) and the
individual’s social functioning (social consequences), in the article
we describe: a) private far-reaching consequences that, according to
the author, refer to a higher incidence and duration of unemploy-
ment, lower initial and lifetime earnings, inferior health status (e.g.
risk of psychological and somatic health problems), less risk aversion
(e.g. drug use, criminal behaviour), reduced lifelong-learning par-
ticipation, a lower quality of social capital (poorer and unsupportive
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Early School Leavers in their Later
(Adult) Life and Social Consequences
Klaudija Šterman Ivančič
Synopsis
ESL holds many far-reaching effects for an individual’s overall qual-
ity of life: lower employability, income and savings, inferior (public)
health status, less risk aversion and increased criminality, less sup-
portive social capital, and reduced lifetime satisfaction. To success-
fully tackle ESL, it is therefore crucial for all actors involved to be
aware of the consequences and help combat ESL on time.
Summary
This article explains the long-term effects of ESL on different as-
pects of an individual’s personal and social life. In defining the con-
sequences of ESL, we start by examining Psacharopoulos’ (2007)
framework of ESL consequences and cost estimation, where the au-
thor refers to the private, social and fiscal impacts of ESL. Since here
we are mainly interested in those consequences with the greatest im-
pact on an individual’s personal life (personal consequences) and the
individual’s social functioning (social consequences), in the article
we describe: a) private far-reaching consequences that, according to
the author, refer to a higher incidence and duration of unemploy-
ment, lower initial and lifetime earnings, inferior health status (e.g.
risk of psychological and somatic health problems), less risk aversion
(e.g. drug use, criminal behaviour), reduced lifelong-learning par-
ticipation, a lower quality of social capital (poorer and unsupportive
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