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The Impact of Internship Experience During Secondary Education on Schooling and Labour Market Outcomes

Neyt, Brecht; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2019

The literature on workplace learning in secondary education has mainly focussed on vocational education programmes. In … this study, we examine the impact of internship experience in secondary education on a student’s schooling and early labour … sequential outcomes by means of a dynamic discrete choice model. In line with the literature on vocational education programmes …

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Does Student Work Really Affect Educational Outcomes? A Review of the Literature

Neyt, Brecht; Omey, Eddy; Verhaest, Dieter; Baert, Stijn - 2017

multidisciplinary literature on the relationship between student employment and educational outcomes. A systematic comparison of the … that are of high academic and policy relevance. One such insight uncovered by our review is that student employment seems …

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The iceberg decomposition: a parsimonious way to map the health of labour markets

Baert, Stijn - 2020

This article introduces the metaphor of the iceberg in the labour market. While policy in most OECD countries has historically focussed on reducing unemployment (the tip of the iceberg), the group of inactive people (below the waterline) is much larger. Therefore, we point to the clear...

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What shifts did covid-19 year 2020 bring to the labour market in Europe?

Baert, Stijn - 2021

This article discusses the evolution of key labour market indicators in the EU-27 countries between 2019 and 2020, i.e. between the year before the covid-19 crisis broke out and the year in which it impacted the economy heavily. Whereas earlier policy-oriented studies have dealt with the...

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Relative Age Effect on European Adolescents’ Social Network

Fumarco, Luca; Baert, Stijn - 2018

We contribute to the literature on relative age effects on pupils’ (non-cognitive) skills formation by studying students’ social network. We investigate data on European adolescents from the Health Behaviour in School Aged Children survey and use an instrumental variables approach to account...

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Younger and Dissatisfied? Relative Age and Life-satisfaction in Adolescence

Fumarco, Luca; Baert, Stijn - 2018

This is the first study to investigate whether age gaps between classmates (that is, relative age) affect life-satisfaction gaps in adolescence. To this end, we analyse data from the multi-country Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) survey. We find evidence that relative age...

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Which former professional football players become successful professional head coaches?

Balliauw, Matteo; Verheuge, Marco; Baert, Stijn - 2022

One of the potential avenues for former professional football players to pursue their career is to become a head coach of a club's first team. An important question is how to best prepare for such a reconversion. This letter is the first in the academic literature quantifying the association...

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Modeling the Effects of Grade Retention in High School

Cockx, Bart; Picchio, Matteo; Baert, Stijn - 2017

A dynamic discrete choice model is set up to estimate the effects of grade retention in high school, both in the short-run (end-of-year evaluation) and in the long-run (drop-out and delay). In contrast to other evaluation approaches, this model captures essential treatment heterogeneity and...

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What do student jobs on graduate CVs signal to employers?

Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; Cuypers, Laure; De Couck, … - 2019

literature. However, to date the focus has been solely on measuring the effect of student employment on later labour market … of student work and we examine for the first time what exactly is being signalled by student employment. We do this by … responsibility, an increased motivation, and more maturity, only student employment in line with a job candidate’s field of study is …

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Work Hard or Play Hard? Degree Class, Student Leadership and Employment Opportunities

Baert, Stijn; Verhaest, Dieter - 2018

graduates with a tertiary education degree distinguish themselves from their peers: degree class and extra-curricular activities …

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