To find or not to find a first “significant” job

Cecilia Albert (), Luis Toharia Cortés and María A. Davia Rodríguez
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Luis Toharia Cortés: Universidad de Alcalá
María A. Davia Rodríguez: Universidad de Castilla La-Mancha

Revista de Economia Aplicada, 2008, vol. 16, issue 1, 37-59

Abstract: In this paper we look at school-to-work transitions in Spain. We distinguish between significant and non-significant jobs and show that educational investment enhances access to a first significant job compared to a non-significant one. We also find strong differences between men and women: education attainment provides a clearer differentiating device for women than for men, whatever field of education females choose. These results are tested and confirmed by a multinomial probit model of the probability of achieving both significant and non-significant jobs and by a discrete time duration model of the probability of achieving a significant job.

Keywords: School-to-work transition; job search; youth labour market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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