Isbn: 9780199252473 - transitions from education to work in europe: the integration of youth into eu labour markets (3 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 352 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | European unification represents major challenges to national institutional frameworks as well as significant pressures for institutional convergence. So far, labor markets have actually seen relatively little convergence, and national institutions have remained highly distinct. Against thisbackground, the book provides an encompassing comparative analysis of school-to-work transitions in EU member states. It shows how differences in both European education and training systems, as well as labour market institutions, generated significant variation in the experiences of young peopleentering European labour markets during the 1990s. This book compiles an integrated series of comparative empirical analyses of education-to-work transitions across the EU by drawing on the European Labour Force Surveys. Individual chapters describe the educational background of young people entering the labor market, address the scope ofeducational expansion in recent decades, and chart basic structures of transition processes in European labor markets. Chapters not only examine the role of education for successful labor market integration, but also the impact of macroeconomic, structural, and institutional factors on youngpeople's chances of avoiding unemployment and attaining employment in occupations appropriate to their education and training. From these analyses it becomes apparent that the structure of education and training systems is the key institutional factor behind successful youth labour marketintegration. At the level of intermediate skills, dual systems of training have retained their advantages in terms of reduced youth unemployment. High levels of education stillconstitute a key asset, for, despite significant educational expansion in recent decades, devaluation trends have beenlimited. As youth labor markets are found to be particularly responsive to macroeconomic conditions, however, macroeconomic stability turns out to be an equa.…

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Zustand: New. This text provides a comparative analysis of school-to-work transitions in EU member states. It shows how differences in both European education and training systems, as well as labour market institutions, generated significant variation in the experiences of young people in the 1990s. Editor(s): Muller, Walter; Gangl, Markus. Num Pages: 348 pages, line figures. BIC Classification: 1QFE; JHBA; JHBL; JNK; KCFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 650. . 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. …