The effects of work experience during higher education on labour market entry: learning by doing or an entry ticket?
Graduates from higher education often enter the labour market with a considerable amount of work experience. Using German data, [the authors] address the question of whether early work experience pays off upon labour market entry. [The authors] compare the labour market benefits of different types of work experience. This comparison allows [the authors] to more generally test hypotheses about different explanations of why education pays off. Results indicate that tertiary graduates do not profit from work experience that is unrelated to the field of study or was a mandatory part of the study p... Show more
Authors: Weiss, Felix; Klein, Markus; Grauenhorst, Thomas
Published: Los Angeles, California, Sage Publications, 2014
Resource type: Article
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