TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bernardi, Martino
AU  - Bertoni, Marco
AU  - Brunello, Giorgio
AU  - Crocè, Clementina
AU  - Rocco, Lorenzo
        TI  - Does Work-Based Learning Facilitate the School to Work Transition? Evidence from an Italian Reform
        PY  - 2024/Oct/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 17352
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp17352
        AB  - In 2015, school-work alternation programmes (alternanza scuola lavoro) became compulsory in all Italian high schools, with the purpose of enabling students to combine theoretical learning at school with work-based learning. A distinctive feature of this reform was that the intensity of school-work-alternation programs varied across school tracks, higher for technical schools and lower for academic schools. Using a difference–in–differences approach, we show that female students in more intensively treated tracks experienced a decline in the probability of employment during the year following high school graduation, relative to females in less intensively treated tracks. The decline was accompanied by an increase in full-time higher education. These results could be driven by the relatively unattractive conditions offered by the Italian labour market to high school graduates without college education.
        KW  - work-based learning
KW  - employment
KW  - college enrolment
KW  - Italy
        ER  -