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Student Employment and Later Labour Market Success: No Evidence for Higher Employment Chances
Author(s) -
Baert Stijn,
Rotsaert Olivier,
Verhaest Dieter,
Omey Eddy
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
kyklos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.766
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1467-6435
pISSN - 0023-5962
DOI - 10.1111/kykl.12115
Subject(s) - endogeneity , work (physics) , relevance (law) , labour economics , economics , demographic economics , work experience , psychology , econometrics , political science , mechanical engineering , law , engineering
Summary 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.