The School-to-Work Transition: Problems and Indicators  

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Ryan, Paul

Jenis: Article from Books - E-Book
Dalam koleksi: Joining Society Social Interaction and Learning in Adolescence and Youth, page 286-299.
Topik: Youth Employment Problems; Duration of the School-to-Work Transition
Fulltext: The School-to-Work Transition Problems and Indicators.pdf (340.42KB)

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The school-to-work transition is a catchall term for the activities of young people as they bounce around or struggle along between full-time schooling and full-time, possibly career, employment. The activities in question include vocational education, work experience, unemployment, labor market programs, casual work, and ?xed-term employment. The transition has become the focus of considerable interest, both academic and policyoriented. In some accounts, the school-to-work transition has become longer and more tortuous, at least in advanced economies (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [OECD], 1996, 1998). A leading transition attribute, youth status in the labor market, is said to have deteriorated in virtually all OECD countries (Blanch?ower & Freeman, 2000). Others emphasize cross-country differences in transition patterns, with German and Japanese institutions performing particularly well (Ryan, 2001). The accuracy of such generalizations is an empirical issue. Their evaluation would be helped if it were possible to quantify transition attributes comprehensively and consistently. This chapter discusses two sets of mea- surement problems: those involved, ?rst, in gauging employment-related dif?culties and, second, in summarizing national transitions at a particular time in a way that permits comparisons across countries and periods. The evidence concerns teenagers in eight advanced economies, supplemented by historical data for the United Kingdom.

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