For most employers, employees acquire competences less by taking part in organised training programmes than by carrying out their work tasks. The training and employee trajectory surveys show that employees whose work dynamics offer the best opportun...

Only abstracts are in English (Texts are in French) Editorial: Pathway Choice and the Education-to-work Transition: The Construction of Trajectories between the Individual and Collective Jean-Frédéric Vergnies…

The anaerobic digestion industry in France, in all its complexity, is still getting off the ground. This study, conducted on the basis of interviews with actors in the industry, looks at the attempts to put a figure on the number of jobs, direct...

This article addresses the personal negotiations that lead individuals to pursue adult education. Analysing this process points up the ambitions pursued and thus makes it possible to identify how the individuals involved perceive their desired future...

New recruits receive less training than employees with longer job tenure. Training on entry into post is provided less frequently for formerly unemployed individuals than for people already in employment prior to recruitment. Nevertheless, the fact o...

Only abstracts are in English (Texts are in French) Editorial :Greening in Progress… Jean-Frédéric Vergnies   Do green jobs constitute a reservoir of opportunities to solve unemployment, particularly among young people? At first glance, we sti...

This  working paper provides a snapshot of labour market trends regarding the 15-29 year-old group across Europe in the first (2008-2010) and second period (2010-2013) of downturn, moving towards to a capability approach-inspired vision of emplo...

Ever increasing numbers of apprentices, with increasingly high levels of education and training, are entering the labour market and, despite the crisis, under significantly more favourable conditions than young people who have taken the classroom-bas...

Only abstracts are in English (Texts are in French) Editorial: On the Boundaries between Categories Jean-Frédéric Vergnies This issue of Formation Emploi encourages us to revisit certain categories and the boundaries between them in order to...

The French national plan against early school leaving, which was launched at the start of the school year in 2014, is intended, among other things, to strengthen collaboration between education professionals in order to make headway in preventing the...

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...

Switzerland seems to be blessed indeed: low unemployment rate, pride of place given to vocational training and apprenticeships, close links between training programmes and the labour market … Over and above all that, this project encourages us to dis...

The environmental quality of buildings is an opportunity and,at the same time, a challenge for architects. On the one hand, it gives them a chance to make 'sustainability' part of the overall objective of architectural quality; on the other hand, it...

Young people from North African origin have greater difficulty in finding employment than their counterparts of French origin. And once they do manage to find employment, their jobs tend to be of lower quality. Thus they appear to suffer from a doubl...