School-To-Work Transition in Comparative Perspective / edited by Dominik Buttler, Maciej Lawrynowicz, and Piotr Michon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Buttler, Dominik, editor.

Lawrynowicz, Maciej, editor.

Michoń, Piotr, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School-to-work transition--Europe, Eastern.

School-to-work transition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (328 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.

Summary:

"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 employment. School-to-Work Transition in Comparative Perspective captures the complex nature of SWTs by proposing and evaluating a new set of metrics which can act as a composite indicator of early employment security. Case studies in the form of biographies from individuals who have experienced turbulent transitions are then analysed in order to outline potential lessons from these lived experiences. Through detailed multi-disciplinary study, the book delivers a cross-country comparative assessment of the SWT period, providing new insights into the complex and dynamic nature of this transition process. It further examines what models of SWT are present in post-socialist countries, with a specific focus on Central and Eastern European states. This compelling book will be an important read for students, academics and researchers in the fields of sociology and social policy, labour policy, welfare states, education and economics. Its presentation of new measures through which to evaluate the SWT period will also greatly benefit professionals and practitioners working in education, labour policy and welfare states"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Other Format:

Print version: Buttler, Dominik School-To-Work Transition in Comparative Perspective

ISBN:

9781800370111

1800370113

Access Restriction:

Open Access Unrestricted online access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2