Do internships in master’s programmes help graduates to get a well-matched job?
研究西班牙硕士实习对毕业后工作匹配的影响，发现实习时长和性质无关紧要，除非学生留在实习单位工作，此时校外和长期实习才降低教育错配概率。
This paper illustrates how and when master’s-level internships and work placements contribute to finding a well-matched post-graduation job in Spain. Their duration and curricular or extracurricular nature are found to be irrelevant unless students remain with their placement employers for their first post-graduation job (i.e. internships function as door openers). It is only then that extracurricular and longer internships are associated with lower probabilities of vertical and horizontal educational mismatch. This finding results from the heterogeneity in master’s students, which calls for more flexibility in the design of internships and work placements to better meet students’ and employers’ needs. But it can also respond to the heterogeneous quality of vacancies offered to master’s students upon graduation, that are often unable to take full advantage of graduates’ skills and knowledge.