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The Impact of Internship Experience on Schooling and Labour Market Outcomes
[Secondary Vocational Education and the Transition from School to Work]

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  • Brecht Neyt
  • Dieter Verhaest
  • Lorenzo Navarini
  • Stijn Baert

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We examine the impact of internship experience during secondary education on students’ schooling and early labour market outcomes by analysing unique, longitudinal data from Belgium. To control for unobservable differences between students with and students without internship experience, we estimate a dynamic discrete choice model. In line with literature on vocational education, we find that internship experience has a positive effect on one’s employment chances up to 5 years after graduation. This positive effect is mainly explained by a positive direct employment effect. Although we also find a positive indirect employment effect through a higher chance to obtain a secondary education qualification, this is largely compensated by negative indirect effects through lower tertiary education attainment. (JEL codes: I21, I26, J21, and J24)

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  • Brecht Neyt & Dieter Verhaest & Lorenzo Navarini & Stijn Baert, 2022. "The Impact of Internship Experience on Schooling and Labour Market Outcomes [Secondary Vocational Education and the Transition from School to Work]," CESifo Economic Studies, CESifo Group, vol. 68(2), pages 127-154.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:cesifo:v:68:y:2022:i:2:p:127-154.
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    Keywords

    internship; transitions in youth; education; labour;
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    JEL classification:

    • I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
    • I26 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Returns to Education
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity

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