The Effects of Working While in School: Evidence from Employment Lotteriest

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: LE Barbanchon, Thomas; Ubfal, Diego; Araya, Federico
• 署名单位: Bocconi University; The World Bank
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.20210041
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 383-410
• 关键词: youth; wages; PROGRAMS; returns

摘要

Does working while in school smooth students' transition into the labor market? We provide evidence on this question by leveraging a one-year work-study program that randomized job offers among over 90,000 student applicants in Uruguay. Program rules forbade employers from employing participants in the same job after program completion, and less than 5 percent of participants ever worked in the same firm again. Two years after the program, participants had 8 percent higher earnings. Our results suggest that the program's focus on work-related skills was a key mechanism for earnings impacts. (JEL I21, I26, J13, J24, J31, O15)