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A Signal of Diligence? Student Work Experience and Later Employment Chances
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- We investigate the impact of student work experience on later hiring chances. To completely rule out potential endogeneity, we present a field experiment in which various forms of student work experience are randomly disclosed by more than 1000 fictitious graduates applying for jobs in Belgium. Theoretical mechanisms are investigated by estimating heterogeneous treatment effects by the relevance and timing of revealed student work experience. We find that neither form of student work experience enhances initial recruitment decisions. For a number of candidate subgroups (by education level and occupation type), even an adverse effect is found.
- Subjects :
- jel:J24
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jel:C93
randomised field experiments, student employment, transitions in youth, human capital, signaling
Polymers and Plastics
ComputingMilieux_THECOMPUTINGPROFESSION
education
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
jel:D83
Business and International Management
jel:I21
Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f8ed338204ac36bfec37a805026ff095