Student Employment and Later Labour Market Success: No Evidence for Higher Employment Chances : Student Employment and Later Labour Market Success

Baert, Stijn;Rotsaert, Olivier;Verhaest, Dieter;Omey, Eddy
(2016) Kyklos : international review for social sciences — Vol. 69, n° 3, p. 401-425 (2016)

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  • Baert, StijnUCLouvain
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  • Rotsaert, OlivierUniversiteit Gent
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  • Verhaest, DieterKU Leuven
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  • Omey, EddyUniversiteit Gent
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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
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Baert, S., Rotsaert, O., Verhaest, D., & Omey, E. (2016). Student Employment and Later Labour Market Success: No Evidence for Higher Employment Chances : Student Employment and Later Labour Market Success. Kyklos : international review for social sciences, 69(3), 401-425. https://doi.org/10.1111/kykl.12115 (Original work published 2016)