TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Piopiunik, Marc
AU  - Schwerdt, Guido
AU  - Woessmann, Ludger
        TI  - Central School Exit Exams and Labor-Market Outcomes
        PY  - 2012/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 6889
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp6889
        AB  - Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor market and, on rigid labor markets, for unemployment. Exploiting variation in exit-exam systems across German states, we find that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor market, as well as with lower unemployment.
        KW  - unemployment
KW  - earnings
KW  - central exit exams
KW  - Germany
        ER  -