Student Employment and Later Labour Market Success: No Evidence for Higher Employment Chances
通过实地实验，随机向比利时雇主披露虚构求职者的学生工作经历，发现无论何种形式的学生工作经历均未提高初始招聘机会，部分子群体甚至出现负面效应。
Summary We investigate the impact of student work experience on later hiring chances. To completely rule out potential endogeneity, we present a field experiment in which various forms of student work experience are randomly disclosed by more than 1000 fictitious graduates applying for jobs in Belgium. Theoretical mechanisms are investigated by estimating heterogeneous treatment effects by the relevance and timing of revealed student work experience. We find that neither form of student work experience enhances initial recruitment decisions. For a number of candidate subgroups (by education level and occupation type), even an adverse effect is found.