More Common, Less Equal: Disparities in College Internship Participation Over Time
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Carrie L. Shandra Sociological Science April 23, 2026 10.15195/v13.a19 Abstract Internships play a key role in the production of inequality in the U.S. labor market, yet are often unobserved in analyses of youth employment. This study makes two empirical contributions to the study of internships. First, I use nationwide data from the 1994–2017 College Senior Survey to evaluate the association between internship participation and individual and institutional markers of privilege over time, net of