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Youth transitions and job quality: How long should they wait and what difference does the family make?
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Abstract This chapter explores how youth unemployment, discontinuous employment, and working in low-quality jobs affect individuals’ subsequent occupational conditions. Using cross-sectional and longitudinal EU-SILC data (2005–2012) for five countries, the chapter distinguishes between different types of goo... view more
This chapter explores how youth unemployment, discontinuous employment, and working in low-quality jobs affect individuals’ subsequent occupational conditions. Using cross-sectional and longitudinal EU-SILC data (2005–2012) for five countries, the chapter distinguishes between different types of good and bad jobs, examining the effect of family background on successful transitions. Findings show that young people from families of higher social class have better chances of making transitions into good-quality jobs than do youth from lower class families. Securing a good entry job is crucial to achieving a successful outcome, whereas experiencing either brief periods of unemployment or employment continuity has limited effects. These mechanisms are evident across all countries considered. The findings reinforce established knowledge on patterns of stratification, evidencing a direct channel of social transmission of inequalities through education and an indirect channel through better labor market entries.... view less
Keywords
adolescent; career start; labor; quality; unemployment; duration; social background; social stratum; employment history; Finland; France; Italy; Great Britain
Classification
Labor Market Research
General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories
Free Keywords
early labor careers; job quality; school-to-work transitions
Collection Title
Youth labor in transition: inequalities, mobility, and policies in Europe
Editor
O'Reilly, Jacqueline; Leschke, Janine; Ortlieb, Renate; Seeleib-Kaiser, Martin; Villa, Paola
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Publisher
Oxford University Press
City
New York, NY
Page/Pages
p. 271-293
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/10419/201397
ISBN
978-0-19-086479-8
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0