Student internships and employment opportunities after graduation
- 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.
| Author details: | By Stijn Baert, Brecht NeytGND, Thomas SiedlerORCiDGND, Ilse Tobback, Dieter Verhaest |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econedurev.2021.102141 |
| ISSN: | 0272-7757 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Economics of education review |
| Subtitle (English): | a field experiment |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | Oxford |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of first publication: | 2021/06/11 |
| Publication year: | 2021 |
| Release date: | 2024/01/16 |
| Tag: | field experiment; hiring; human capital; internship; signalling |
| Volume: | 83 |
| Article number: | 102141 |
| Number of pages: | 11 |
| Organizational units: | Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Fachgruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre | |
| DDC classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
| License (German): |  CC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International |
