published in French as "Filières éducatives, réseaux et réussite professionnelle" in Economie et prévision, 2005164-165, 2005.
Does the educational track (technical or professional, as opposed to general) provide
individuals with networks that are useful in the labor market? And how do these networks
help? In this paper, we consider the effect of the educational track on the means by which
individuals find employment, the time it takes to find their first stable job and their earnings
once the school-to-work transition is well established. Using data in French school leavers
from 1969-1992, we find that the educational track significantly influences the means by
which jobs are found, favoring networks in particular, as well as having an independent direct
effect on the speed of transition into the labor market and later earnings. We also find that the
means by which a job was found significantly affects the time to first job and earnings, and in
a way that offsets the direct effect of the educational track on our outcome variables.
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