Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers
Creation-Date: 1999-06-08
Number: 99-041/3
Author-Name: Gerard J. van den Berg
Author-Email: gberg@feweb.vu.nl
Author-Workplace-Name: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Author-Name: Anders Holm
Author-Workplace-Name: Institute of Local Government Studies, Denmark
Author-Name: Jan C. van Ours
Author-Workplace-Name: Tilburg University
Title: Do Stepping Stone Jobs exist? Early Career Paths in the Medical Profession
Abstract: In the Netherlands, students who want to become a medical specialist have toenrol in a training program which is in limited supply. During the search for aposition as trainee (or "junior medical specialist"), they may accept atemporary job as a medical assistant. We use a micro data set to investigatewhether such work experience increases the probability of becoming juniormedical specialist. To deal with selectivity, we simultaneously model thetransitions from unemployment to trainee, from unemployment to medicalassistant, from medical asistant to trainee and from medical assistant tounemployment. We find that a job as medical assistant helps to become a medicalspecialist.
Classification-JEL: J64; C41; I21
Keywords: job search; multivariate duration models; hazard rate; education; university; treatment effect
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