The early labor force experience of college students and their post-college success

Abstract

This paper uses National Longitudinal Survey data to examine the impact of college students' in-school work on their post-college employment and earnings. The empirical evidence from this study suggests that in-school work experience has a positive effect on post-college earnings but not employment. The results also show that the impact of in-school work on post-college earnings reaches its peak at about the third year after graduation and the positive earning effect could last for at least 5 years after graduation.