TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Baert, Stijn
AU  - Rotsaert, Olivier
AU  - Verhaest, Dieter
AU  - Omey, Eddy
        TI  - A Signal of Diligence? Student Work Experience and Later Employment Chances
        PY  - 2015/Jul/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 9170
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp9170
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - student employment
KW  - randomised field experiments
KW  - transitions in youth
KW  - human capital
KW  - signaling
        ER  -