Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/196681 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 12183
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Internships during tertiary education have become substantially more common over the past decades in many industrialised countries. This study examines the impact of a voluntary intra-curricular internship experience during university studies on the probability of being invited to a job interview. To estimate a causal relationship, we conducted a randomised 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.
Subjects: 
internship
hiring
human capital
signalling
field experiment
JEL: 
C93
I21
J23
J24
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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