14th Workshop

European Research Network on Transitions in Youth

Marseilles 7-9 September 2006

 

 

 

 

LIST OF PAPERS

 

 

Session 1: Returns to vocational training

 

(1)               D. Fernandes, G. Moraes, G. Neves: Vocational Education and Socioeconomic Attainment in Brazil.

(2)               J.-F. Giret, I. Recotillet: The economics return to vocational training at PhD level: the example of the Cifre program in France.

(3)               S. Rothman: Young Australians' Participation in Vocational Education to Age 24.

 

 

Session 2: Transitions to and from apprenticeship

 

(4)               C. Brzinski-Fay: Labour market outcomes of Apprenticeship in Europe.

(5)               H. Dietrich: Does enterprise matter? Firm-specific effects of the transition from apprenticeship training to employment in Germany.

(6)               A. Haas, A. Damelang: Is German apprenticeship an entrance card for young people with migrant background on the labour market?

(7)               S. Hupka, S. Sacchi, B. Stadler: Does the Swiss VET System encourage inequity?

 

 

Session 3: Work experience as a learning experience?

 

(8)               D. Byrne: Work related learning as part of schooling and the Transition from School to Work in the Republic of Ireland.

(9)               W. Smits, I. Sieben: Formal and informal training versus learning-by-doing at labour market entrance of Dutch graduates.

(10)           T. Meyer: Vocationalizing education or educationalizing vocational training? A lab report from Switzerland.

 

 

Session 4: Gender segregation

 

(11)           T. Couppié, A. Dupray, S. Moullet: Wages discrimination between young men and women: do occupational segregation and education matter?

(12)           I. Laurijssen: Young women's part-time work: family formation, choice and context.

(13)           M. Kreidl: Do non-standard education careers diminish or reinforce status and gender inequality in access to education?

 

 

Session 5: A-typical entry, flexibility

 

(14)           E. Verhofstadt, C. Göbel, E. Omey: The effect of temporary employment in the transition from school to a permanent job.

(15)           M. Wolbers: Increasing labour market instability among young people? Labour market entry and early career development among school-leavers in the Netherlands since the mid-1980s.

(16)           E.Ebralidze: The Danish answer to globalization and its effect on labour market entrants.

 

 

Session 6: Social capital and support to young people’s careers

 

(17)           C. Doki,A. Kitamura: The Potential of the Higher Education System to Help Young People Participate in Society.

(18)           J.Allen, R. Van der Velden: Who can be trusted and when is it relevant? The role of trust in employment relations of higher education graduates.

(19)           T. Traag, R. Van der Velden: Early school-leaving in the VMBO. Modelling student- and family-level factors to explain early school-leaving.

(20)           M. Elchardus, C. Rombauts, W. Smits: Hotel mama. Economic and cultural motives for prolonging cohabitation with the parents.

 

 

Session7: Comparative analysis

 

(21)           M. Beck: The new transition module of Labour Force Surveys.

 

 

Session 8: Match and mismatch

 

(22)           J. Allen, L. Badillo-Amador, R. Van der Velden: Wage Effects of Job-Worker Mismatches: Heterogeneous Skills or Institutional Effects?

(23)           L. A. Støren, C. A. Arnesen: What promotes a successful utilization of competence in the labour market five year after graduation? Does vocational higher education result in a better match than academic generalist education?

(24)           M. J. Freitas, S. Drumond, C. Camacho, A. P. Fernandes, C. Taveira, C. Carriço: Qualitative Dimensions of insertion processes: Case studies of youth insertion.

(25)           S. Devineau: Vocational skills as the best choice?