Arbeitspapier

Central school exit exams and labor-market outcomes

Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market effects may be more imminent for students leaving school directly for the labor market and, on rigid labor markets, for unemployment. Exploiting variation in exit-exam systems across German states, we find that central exams are indeed associated with higher earnings for students from school types directly bound for the labor market, as well as with lower unemployment.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6889

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Education and Research Institutions: General
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
Thema
central exit exams
earnings
unemployment
Germany
Bildungsabschluss
Zentralisierung
Berufseinstieg
Bildungsertrag
Arbeitslosigkeit
Deutschland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Piopiunik, Marc
Schwerdt, Guido
Woessmann, Ludger
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2012

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Piopiunik, Marc
  • Schwerdt, Guido
  • Woessmann, Ludger
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2012

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