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.
Arvustused
This highly original and innovative book covers issues and groups of countries that have rarely been dealt with in cross-national research. The editors and contributors combine quantitative and qualitative data in a way that enriches our understanding of young peoples trajectories, employment quality, job insecurity, job entry and the role of welfare systems. This book is a significant contribution to the field. -- Bjørn Hvinden, Norwegian Social Research, Norway
Contents:
1 Introduction to School-to-Work Transition in Comparative
Perspective 1
Dominik Buttler, Maciej awrynowicz, Piotr Micho
PART I NEW INDICES IN SCHOOL-TO-WORK
TRANSITION RESEARCH
2 Constructing a composite indicator of early employment
security 9
Maria Symeonaki, Glykeria Stamatopoulou and Dimitris
Parsanoglou
3 Employment quality of young workers in Europe and its
determinants 38
Dominik Buttler
PART II DETERMINANTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF
TURBULENT TRANSITIONS
4 Learning from precarious trajectories: portraits of young
adults in four European countries 65
Margherita Bussi, Ondej Hora, Maciej awrynowicz and
Mi Ah Schoyen
5 Recruiters valuation of young peoples employment
insecurities in Bulgaria and Switzerland: making sense of
job-hopping and unemployment in the hiring process 89
Christian Imdorf, Matthias Pohlig, Lysann Zander
6 Do the interactions with employment services and
other institutions facilitate school-to-work transitions?
Experiences of young people in Bulgaria, Czechia and
Poland 122
Tom Sirovtka, Ondej Hora, Veneta Krasteva and
Maciej awrynowicz
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: an introduction 157
Irene Dingeldey and Dominik Buttler
8 School-to-work transition in Czechia: integration of
a majority, marginalization of some 175
Ondej Hora, Markta Horkov and Tom Sirovtka
9 School-to-work transition in Bulgaria: smooth for some,
precarious for many 202
Veneta Krasteva
10 School-to-work transition in Latvia: Many paths, few
pathbreakers 228
Olga Rajevska, Anna Broka, Ilona Gehtmane-Hofmane
11 School-to-work transition in Poland: a false reality of
numbers 260
Piotr Micho
12 Transition from education to work in Bulgaria, Czechia,
Latvia and Poland: a comparative summary 289
Piotr Micho
13 Conclusions on school-to-work transition in comparative
perspective 304
Dominik Buttler, Maciej awrynowicz, Piotr Micho
Index
Edited by Dominik Buttler, Maciej awrynowicz and Piotr Micho, Associate Professors, Department of Labour and Social Policy, Poznan University of Economics and Business, Poland
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