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Title: What Employers Want from Interns: Demand-Side Trends in the Internship Market
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Publication Year: 2020
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Abstract: Internships have become a ubiquitous component of the college-career transition, yet empirical evidence of the internship market is limited. This study uses data from 1.3 million internship postings collected between 2007-2016 in the United States to (1) identify trends in internship education, experience, and skill requirements over the Great Recession and recovery periods; (2) evaluate how these trends correspond to those observed in the traditional labor market; and (3) assess robustness across labor market sectors. Results indicate that internship education and skill requirements increased substantially throughout the recession and recovery periods, indicative of a longer-term structural shift in employer expectations about internship hiring. Additionally, growth in internship education and skill requirements largely outpaced growth in non-internship education and skill requirements over the same period, suggesting potential substitution of noninterns with interns. Post-recession employers still consider internships to be entry-level positions—yet now expect interns to have skills in hand.
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Authors: Shandra, Carrie L.
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Institution: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure
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