This paper studies the causal effect of student internship experience on labor market choices and wages later in life … completing an internship while attending university. Employing longitudinal data from graduate surveys, we find positive and …

This paper studies the causal effect of student internship experience in firms on earnings later in life. We use … mandatory firm internships at German universities as an instrument for doing a firm internship while attending university … characterized by a weak labor market orientation. The empirical findings show that graduates who completed a firm internship face a …

industrialised countries. This study examines the impact of a voluntary intra-curricular internship experience during university … field experiment in which we sent 1,248 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 …

, and only differ with respect to the internship experience. This allows comparison between interns and non-interns in key … internships have detrimental effects across dimensions. Graduates with an internship experience are significantly less likely to … are a negative selection of all graduates. Instead it seems that the internship sends a negative signal to prospective …

experiment, we test a website that supplements such search skills by providing editable resume and cover letter templates as well …

attention. This paper analyzes the dramatic impact of sample attrition in a large job search experiment. We take advantage of …