Let Young People Join The Legislative Process. A Twitter Based Experiment On Internships

摘要

The aim of this research is to examine the possible effects of labour market institutional characteristicsudon young people's perceptions of their internship experiences as expressed on Twitter. By looking atudthese opinions (satisfaction versus dissatisfaction) in relation to certain features of internships as well as toudthe more general labour market regulatory framework, this project aims to give a voice to young people,udenabling them (indirectly) to provide policy suggestions to law-makers. Furthermore, we propose a previewudof a possible empirical model for data collection based on the manual coding of Tweets. By employing audProbit regression and Blinder-Oaxaca and Fairlie decompositions, we have tried to establish a link betweenudthe perceived evaluation of internships and the country where the internship is based, the latter being usedudas a proxy for the legal system. In all our tests we found that the country in which the internship is placedudis the main factor in the positive or negative perception. Ultimately we shall propose the use of Twitterudnot only as a relevant research tool, but also as an instrument for bringing young people's needs to theudattention of law-makers.ud