The theme chosen for this first issue - the School-to-Work Transition - underpins a large part of Céreq’s scientific activities since its inception. Written by a former Scientific Director of Céreq, José Rose, professor of sociology, the introductory...

Tracking the 2010 cohort of leavers: preliminary results after 7 years   How have the French young people who left the education system in 2010 at all levels and with or without qualifications higher than the lower secondary certificate fared...

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...

Three years into their working lives, the unemployment rate among the young people who completed secondary vocational education in 2010 was 24%. The crisis has hit holders of the CAP and BEP head on, causing their labour market situation to deteriora...

The young people who left higher education in 2010 and were surveyed as part of Céreq’s education-to-work transition surveys are not immune to the effects of the deteriorating economic situation. Although they are more highly qualified as a result of...

In 2013, three years after leaving the education system, 22% of economically active young people were looking for work. This is the highest level ever observed in  Céreq’s school-to-work transition surveys. The increase compared with the 2004 co...

One might imagine that after seven years on the labour market, young people have finished with school-to-work transition and started forging a career, taking advantage of the opportunities for advancement available at their firms or gaining promotion...

A major recruitment operation undertaken around the year 2000 by a large automobile manufacturing group in several of its European sites offers the possibility of studying the arrival of young people in unskilled operative posts in different countrie...

Although unemployment is endemic among those under 25 years of age, we still do not have a very clear picture of the young people who continue to haunt the fringes of the labour market after leaving the educational system. One tends to imagine that t...