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Do Stepping Stone Jobs exist? Early Career Paths in the Medical Profession

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  • Gerard J. van den Berg

    () (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

  • Anders Holm

    (Institute of Local Government Studies, Denmark)

  • Jan C. van Ours

    (Tilburg University)

Abstract

In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have to enrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for a position as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept a temporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to investigate whether such work experience increases the probability of becoming junior medical specialist. To deal with selectivity, we simultaneously model the transitions from unemployment to trainee, from unemployment to medical assistant, from medical asistant to trainee and from medical assistant to unemployment. We find that a job as medical assistant helps to become a medical specialist.

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Paper provided by Tinbergen Institute in its series Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers with number 99-041/3.

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Date of creation: 08 Jun 1999
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Handle: RePEc:dgr:uvatin:19990041

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Keywords: job search; multivariate duration models; hazard rate; education; university; treatment effect;

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