PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Cahuc, Pierre
AU  - Carcillo, Stéphane
AU  - Minea, Andreea
TI  - The Difficult School-to-Work Transition of High School Dropouts: Evidence from a field experiment
AID  - 10.3368/jhr.56.1.0617-8894R2
DP  - 2019 Jun 07
TA  - Journal of Human Resources
PG  - 0617-8894R2
4099  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2019/06/03/jhr.56.1.0617-8894R2.short
4100  - http://jhr.uwpress.org/content/early/2019/06/03/jhr.56.1.0617-8894R2.full
AB  - This paper investigates the effects of the labor market experience of high school dropouts four years after leaving school by sending fictitious résumés to real job postings in France. Compared to those who have stayed unemployed since leaving school, the callback rate is not raised for those with employment experience, whether it is subsidized or non-subsidized, if there is no training accompanied by skill certification. We find no stigma effect associated with subsidized work experience. Moreover, training accompanied by skill certification improves youth prospects only when the local unemployment rate is sufficiently low, which occurs in one fifth of the commuting zones only.