School-To-Work Transition in Comparative Perspective

"Incisive and forward-thinking in its approach, this prescient book investigates the conditions of the often unstable school-to-work transition (SWT) period, calling for an improvement in labour market entry processes in order to facilitate the smooth integration of school leavers into employme...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher (publisher)
Otros Autores: Buttler, Dominik, editor (editor), Lawrynowicz, Maciej, editor, Michoń, Piotr, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing 2023.
Edición:First edition
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009786581506719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Figures
  • Contributors
  • 1. Introduction to School-to-Work Transition in Comparative Perspective
  • PART I New indices in school-to-work transition research
  • 2. Constructing a composite indicator of early employment security
  • 3. Employment quality of young workers in Europe and its determinants
  • PART II Determinants and consequences of turbulent transitions
  • 4. Learning from precarious trajectories: portraits of young adults in four European countries
  • 5. Recruiters' valuation of young people's employment insecurities in Bulgaria and Switzerland: making sense of job-hopping and unemployment in the hiring process
  • 6. Do the interactions with employment services and other institutions facilitate school-to-work transitions? Experiences of young people in Bulgaria, Czechia and Poland
  • PART III Towards a new typology of transition regimes. The case of post-socialist countries
  • 7. School-to-work transition regimes in post-socialist countries
  • 8. School-to-work transition in Czechia: integration of a majority, marginalization of some
  • 9. School-to-work transition in Bulgaria: smooth for some, precarious for many
  • 10. School-to-work transition in Latvia: Many paths, few pathbreakers
  • 11. School-to-work transition in Poland: a false reality of numbers
  • 12. Transition from education to work in Bulgaria, Czechia, Latvia and Poland: a comparative summary
  • 13. Conclusions on school-to-work transition in comparative perspective
  • Index.