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Take Your Time to Grow: A Field Experiment on the Hiring of Youths
- Source :
- German Economic Review, e706-e729
- Publication Year :
- 2019
- Publisher :
- Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2019.
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Abstract
- We investigate the effect of spells of no formal employment of young Germans on their chances of entering the labor market through an apprenticeship. We also study whether the potential negative effects of such spells can be mitigated by publicly provided training measures. In a field experiment, the fictitious applications of three young women were sent to firms advertising apprenticeships for the position of office manager. One application was from a fresh school-leaver and two from applicants who had been out of school for two years, where one of them had participated in a training measure. We find that applicants who have been out of school for two years and have participated in the training are more successful than older applicants without additional training. We do not find a significant difference between older applicants with or without training and fresh school leavers. Our findings show that training measures increase the attractiveness of applicants and that the potential stigma of spells of no formal employment after school are compensated by informal work experience or age or a combination of both.
- Subjects :
- Attractiveness
Economics and Econometrics
I28
Economics
Bildungsverlauf
Stigma (botany)
Federal Republic of Germany
Out of school
Education
Bildungswesen quartärer Bereich, Berufsbildung
C93
field experiment
hiring decisions
informal and formal employment
ddc:370
Berufsaussicht
course of education
ddc:330
Labor Market Research
Bildung und Erziehung
junger Erwachsener
training
Arbeitsmarktforschung
Ausbildung
Significant difference
Jugendlicher
Wirtschaft
Vocational Training, Adult Education
Bundesrepublik Deutschland
Work experience
Lehre
adolescent
young adult
Office Manager
Position (finance)
career prospect
Demographic economics
J64
Apprenticeship
apprenticeship
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14680475 and 14656485
- Volume :
- 20
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- German Economic Review
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f73ff740e934f659a660e29dd91a82e3