On Feb. 1, an initiative on the topic of school-to-work transition was held in Milan at Bocconi University. The focus of the project is on vocational school students and their difficult integration into the labor market.
This event inaugurates the collaboration between the Rodolfo Debenedetti Foundation and UniCredit Foundation to implement a three-year program aimed at testing innovative solutions to improve access to employment for young vocational school graduates. Specifically, the collaboration involves the implementation of a pilot intervention in the 2023/2024 school year, in which the effectiveness of job search guidance services provided by private labor market intermediaries will be tested.
Specifically, the project, which aims to measure the impact of the counseling program on students' employment rates in the months following graduation, will tentatively involve 80 schools, more than 1,000 students and about 200 teachers, with job counseling activities and faculty trainings.
To this end, a counterfactual evaluation of the program will also be implemented through a comparison between students who benefited from the counseling services and teacher trainings (treatment group) and a comparison group of students who did not participate in the intervention (control group).