Some young people have all the luck! The duration dependence of the school-to-work transition in Europe

Pastore, Francesco; Quintano, Claudio; Rocca, Antonella

doi:10.1016/j.labeco.2021.101982

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“…Fourth, when compared to Italy, the European country with longer STWT processes (Pastore et al, 2021 ), we found that internal and external mobility intentions within the country and abroad are often significantly lower, with a few exceptions among other countries located toward the South (e.g. Spain).…”

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“…We ran binary logistic regression models for each job-intention behavior, including the respondents from all countries, and controlled for country effects by computing robust standard errors and including country dummies (Table 5 in the Appendix). We used Italy as the reference category, as previous studies have identified the Italian school-to-work transition as the longest in Europe (Pastore et al, 2021 ).…”

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Determinants of Job-Finding Intentions Among Young Adults from 11 European Countries

2022

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In this study we investigate the impact of individual, parental and social factors on young adults’ job-finding intentions across countries and overall. We test our hypotheses by conducting binary logistic regressions on the basis of an original dataset that comprises responses from more than 5200 young adults and their parents from 11 European countries. Our findings show that individual factors are most decisive in shaping the job-finding intentions of young adults. Most importantly, being enrolled in education does not prevent young adults from lowering their aspirations with respect to anticipated earnings or finding more sophisticated jobs. Social factors, in terms of being socially involved or having more friends in employment, lead to stronger mobility intentions as well as to stronger intentions to improve skills or develop new ones. At the country level, and compared to Italian participants, who go through a longer school-to-work transition, participants from Northern or Central European countries, as well as from the United Kingdom, show weaker mobility intentions. In many of these countries, young adults are also more willing than their Italian counterparts to lower income aspirations, while being less inclined to lower their aspirations in terms of finding more sophisticated jobs. In a last step, we reflect on education as a means of improving professional aspirations and the need to offer adequate on-the-ground services to help young people through the school-to-work transition, especially in Southern European countries.

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“…The detailed analyses of the data highlight that the STWT process depends on socio-demographic characteristics like gender (e.g., Daehlen, 2007;Struffolino & Borgna, 2021), personal decisions regarding school attendance, type of school, entering the labor market early or late (e.g., Boudon, 2016;Lucas, 2001), and skills and motivation (e.g., Pastore et al, 2021;Pinquart et al, 2003;Uka & Uka, 2020). In the countries of Southern and Eastern Europe, young women have a higher risk of becoming NEETs because of family responsibilities (see, e.g., Tosun et al, 2021).…”

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School-Work-Transition of NEETS: A Comparative Analysis of European Countries

2021

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This study investigates the connection between the reasons why some young people end their education without attaining a university degree and the effect of this decision on the probability of becoming a NEET in a set of European countries. Young people face the highest degree of disadvantage in the Mediterranean and East European countries, whereas in Continental European countries the school-to-work transition is smooth. We use the ad hoc module of the 2016 Labour Force Survey (LFS) and focus on young people aged 15 to 24. Our analysis reveals a positive relationship between the decision to drop out of education for health or family reasons and the probability of becoming a NEET. Conversely, when the reason for not completing university education is the desire to start working, and when the individuals who dropped out of university education gathered work experience during this period, the probability of becoming a NEET decreases significantly.

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“…In our opinion, this strategy could be an additional dimension of the national Youth Guarantee programmes in our four Southern European countries and is in line with the combination of short- and long-term interventions suggested by Eurofound (2016) . It is worth underlining that De Luca et al (2019) suggest that labour market reforms in Italy reduced the share of NEETs, although its crucial link with education and the school to work transition plays the most relevant role (Pastore et al, 2021 a , b ).…”

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Being a NEET before and after the Great Recession: persistence by gender in Southern Europe

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This article adds to the scant literature on the time persistence of being a young Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) by including four main novelties: we distinguish short- and long-term persistence; we use estimations before (2004–2007) and after the Great Recession (2013–2016); we analyse four Southern European countries that are relatively similar and were significantly affected by the Great Recession (Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain); and all analyses are disaggregated by gender. The descriptive analysis shows a convergence in NEET rates by gender in the four countries due to a worsening of the male NEET rate and no improvement among young females. The econometric estimations show that long-term persistence is smaller than short-term persistence and that the latter increased after the Great Recession, especially for male NEETs. Policy implications for the design of the Youth Guarantee and lessons from the coronavirus pandemic are also discussed.

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Some young people have all the luck! The duration dependence of the school-to-work transition in Europe

Cited by 44 publications

References 36 publications

Determinants of Job-Finding Intentions Among Young Adults from 11 European Countries

Determinants of Job-Finding Intentions Among Young Adults from 11 European Countries

School-Work-Transition of NEETS: A Comparative Analysis of European Countries

Being a NEET before and after the Great Recession: persistence by gender in Southern Europe

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