Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/307176 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 17352
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In 2015, school-work alternation programmes (alternanza scuola lavoro) became compulsory in all Italian high schools, with the purpose of enabling students to combine theoretical learning at school with work-based learning. A distinctive feature of this reform was that the intensity of school-work-alternation programs varied across school tracks, higher for technical schools and lower for academic schools. Using a difference–in–differences approach, we show that female students in more intensively treated tracks experienced a decline in the probability of employment during the year following high school graduation, relative to females in less intensively treated tracks. The decline was accompanied by an increase in full-time higher education. These results could be driven by the relatively unattractive conditions offered by the Italian labour market to high school graduates without college education.
Subjects: 
work-based learning
employment
college enrolment
Italy
JEL: 
J60
J68
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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