Educational Track, Networks and Labor Market Outcomes

David Margolis and Véronique Simonnet ()

No 699, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Does the educational track (technical or professional, as opposed to general) provide individuals with networks that are useful in the labor market? And how do these networks help? In this paper, we consider the effect of the educational track on the means by which individuals find employment, the time it takes to find their first stable job and their earnings once the school-to-work transition is well established. Using data in French school leavers from 1969-1992, we find that the educational track significantly influences the means by which jobs are found, favoring networks in particular, as well as having an independent direct effect on the speed of transition into the labor market and later earnings. We also find that the means by which a job was found significantly affects the time to first job and earnings, and in a way that offsets the direct effect of the educational track on our outcome variables.

Keywords: school-to-work transition; Educational system; educational track; networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I28 J21 J23 J31 J38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2003-01
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Published - published in French as "Filières éducatives, réseaux et réussite professionnelle" in Economie et prévision, 2005164-165, 2005.

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