TY  - JOUR
A1  - Baert, By Stijn
A1  - Neyt, Brecht
A1  - Siedler, Thomas
A1  - Tobback, Ilse
A1  - Verhaest, Dieter
T1  - Student internships and employment opportunities after graduation
BT  - a field experiment
JF  - Economics of education review
N2  - Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many industrialised countries. This study examines the impact of a voluntary intra-curricular internship experience during university studies on the probability of being invited to a job interview. To estimate a causal relationship, we conducted a randomised field experiment in which we sent 1248 fictitious, but realistic, resumes to real job openings. We find that applicants with internship experience have, on average, a 12.6% higher probability of being invited to a job interview.
KW  - internship
KW  - hiring
KW  - field experiment
KW  - human capital
KW  - signalling
Y1  - 2021
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2021.102141
SN  - 0272-7757
VL  - 83
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Oxford
ER  -