RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Starting Out on the Right Foot
JF Journal of Human Resources
FD University of Wisconsin Press
SP 905
OP 928
DO 10.3368/jhr.1119-10578R2
VO 59
IS 3
A1 Maida, Agata
A1 Sonedda, Daniela
YR 2024
UL http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/59/3/905.abstract
AB In the labor market, it is essential to establish which types of contracts provide the best stepping stone to a permanent job. A unique setting generated by Italy’s 2012 apprenticeship reform presents us with an opportunity to study this issue. We compare workers treated by this reform to similar untreated individuals around 30 years of age, which is the upper limit for this training contract in Italy. Treated workers benefited from approximately a one percentage point increase in the probability of entering an open-ended contract. At 36 months from the treatment, their advantage of remaining in the same job was about five percentage points.