As the statutory retirement age rises in France, how do employees perceive their careers after the age of 50? Despite popular belief, most of them express a desire to evolve rather than a ‘reluctance to change’. Whether it’s a question of progressing...

Innovation is a key factor in growth in the digital sector. In order to foster innovation, digital companies must, to a greater extent than elsewhere in the economy, recruit skilled personnel and ensure that their employees' skills are maintained and...

Although employees in low-skilled jobs are as likely as any others to express an interest in receiving training, they actually submit significantly fewer applications for training. How can this gap be explained? While a wish to receive training goes...

The book presents the detailed results of the large-scale national survey carried out in the spring of 2016 among young people who left education in 2013. Over the past twenty years, the Céreq has conducted a series of triennial surveys, with a repr...

Against the background of a weak economic recovery, access to employment for young people in the 2013 cohort was slightly more favourable than for the preceding cohort. In 2016, three years after they had left the education system, one young worker i...

The first strand of the French training and employee trajectory surveys (dispositif d'enquêtes sur les formations et itinéraires des salaries/Defis), carried out in 2015, provides a more detailed picture of firms' use of continuing vocational trainin...

Long sheltered from unemployment, science students today have to give some thought to preparing for their entry into working life. The French Science Insert project, selected from among the projects funded by the Fonds d'expérimentation pour la jeune...