Firstly, we review the impact of part-time jobs on students’ school life. Some
scholars argue that part-time employment deprives students of a full university experience
(Curtis 2007) in the sense that working students are significantly less likely to
participate in extracurricular activities (D’Amico 1984; Taylor and Smith 1998;
Warren 2002), university societies (Humphrey 2006), volunteering (Silver and Silver
1997) and sporting activities (Humphrey and McCarthy 1998; Humphrey 2006). As a
result, working students are deprived of the chance to add to the cultural and social
capital they can accrue through participating in extracurricular activities (Humphrey
2006). In sum, most findings related to the impact of part-time jobs on school life are
in line with the prediction drawn from Coleman’s zero-sum time-allocation theory
given that employed students are spending less time in school than their nonemployed
counterparts