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cover unemployment and occupational allocation as two major dimensions of early labour market outcomes, applying multilevel …
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four outcomes: labour force participation, unemployment, industrial concentration and occupational status. The results of … both Sweden and Austria, but the magnitude of the unemployment gap of immigrants in Sweden is much higher. If successful in …
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The paper addresses the effects of employment protection legislation on job mobility and status attainment among young people entering the labour market. Given that strict employment protection legislation (EPL) has often been shown to reduce the dynamics of labour markets in general, resulting...
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sizes, increasing educational expansion and structural changes in labour demand on market entrants unemployment risks and … occupational allocation. In general, it is found that unemployment risks have closely followed the evolution of aggregate economic …
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This paper examines gender differentiation in early labour market outcomes across European countries. In spite of the fact that the educational attainment of women has now surpassed that of men in many countries, differences persist in the type of educational courses taken by young women and...
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In this paper, we investigate the determinants of job mismatches with respect to field of education among school-leavers in Europe. In addition, the effects of having a job mismatch on the labour market position of school-leavers are examined. Special attention is paid to cross-country variation...
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While the labour market integration of immigrant youth has increasingly received attention in recent years, due to the lack of appropriate data comparative studies are scarce until now and theoretical reasons for persistence of ethnic disadvantages often remain unclear. In this paper we try to...
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The existing social stratification studies show that social inequalities in educational and occupational opportunities are still a feature of our societies. This paper aims to study country differences in the extent to which social origin affects young people's educational and occupational...
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The paper proposes an empirical examination of the consequences of educational expansion and reform in four European countries in terms of school-leavers' labour market chances. The empirical analyses focus on the returns to higher education on the one side and vocational qualification as...
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"Over the last two decades, youth unemployment emerged as one of the major problems of many contemporary European … educational stratification of unemployment in early labour market career and its institutional embeddedness in specific education … and employment systems. For the sake of comparative analysis, the paper investigates youth unemployment in France, the …
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