A Signal of Diligence? Student Work Experience and Later Employment Chances
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Keywords
student employment; randomised field experiments; transitions in youth; human capital; signaling;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
- I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
- D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
- C93 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Design of Experiments - - - Field Experiments
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-EDU-2015-07-18 (Education)
- NEP-EXP-2015-07-18 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-HRM-2015-07-18 (Human Capital and Human Resource Management)
- NEP-LMA-2015-07-18 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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