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Christian Brzinsky-Fay Lost in Transition: Labour Market Entry Sequences of School Leavers in Europe
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Transitional labour markets (TLMs) aim at fostering individual employability
over a person’s life course under the conditions of flexible labour markets. For
TLM policies it is therefore necessary to focus not on single transitions or
points of time but on transitional periods. Such a period can contain more than
one single transition and add up to an overall sequence type. In particular, the
process of labour market entry is characterised by considerable insecurity and
varies in duration across individual. From a European perspective, it seems
inappropriate to focus on the national level. European policies for tackling
youth unemployment should be complementary to certain types of transitional
sequences rather than focus on a particular institutional setting.
In the paper I examine sequences of school-to-work transitions in ten European countries by using explorative methods of optimal matching and cluster analysis. The process of labour market entry is observed for the five years following departure from school by examining monthly labour market statuses. The sequences are classified by similarity, and certain sequence types along with their distribution are described. The resulting picture shows strong variation across countries, which can only partly be captured by classic typologies of school-to-work transition regimes. Apart from that, the quality of the coordination process between the educational system and the labour market can be assessed by taking into account indicators derived from the TLM concept, namely, volatility, integrative capability and the degree of risk. |
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