Empirical Economics Seminar

On November 22 (1pm), we are happy to host Malte Sandner (TH Nürnberg), who visits CESA and presents in our Empirical Economics Seminar.

Student Job Coworker Networks and Labor Market Entry
(joint with Gokay Demir, Friederike Hertweck and Ipek Yükselen)

Abstract
This paper analyzes whether and to what extent college students’ coworker networks from student jobs affect their labor market transition after graduation. The empirical analysis is based on administrative data, which includes all pre- and post-graduation job-related networks of college students who graduated from a large German university between 1995 and 2016. Ouridentification strategy overcomes potential bias due to non-random selection into networks by controlling for coherent sets of individual, network, and establishment characteristics, as well as establishment fixed effects, and by distinguishing between close and less close colleagues in the same establishment. Our results suggest that college graduates benefit from the quality of their coworkers in student jobs by speeding up their transition to the labor market and earning higher wages in their first job after graduation. These findings can contribute to understand which factors are important for a successful transition from higher education to the labor market.

in room F 009, buliding 3.
We look very much forward to a fruitful and inspiring exchange