Does work experience help to become a medical specialist?

Gerard J. van den Berg, Anders Holm () and Jan C. van Ours
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Gerard J. van den Berg: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculteit der Economische Wetenschappen en Econometrie (Free University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics Sciences, Business Administration and Economitrics

No 17, Serie Research Memoranda from VU University Amsterdam, Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Econometrics

Abstract: In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have to enrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for a position as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept a temporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro dataset to investigate whether such work experience increases the probability of becoming junior medical specialist. To deal with se-lectivity, we simultaneously model the transitions from unemployment to trainee, from unemployment to medical assistant, from medical as-sistant to trainee and from medical assistant to unemployment. We find that work experience helps to become a medical specialist.

Keywords: job search; multivariate duration models; hazard rate; education; university; treatment effect. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C41 I21 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999
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