For a long time, schools were seen as a sanctuary, and the economy as an independent sphere. However, the strong interrelationships between success, educational pathways and social position are well established. This issue illustrates how institution...

This varia issue of Formation Emploi illustrates in particular the mosaic of trajectories in the educational and employment systems. For young people who are far from both school and employment, "voluntary military service" may be suitable for those...

This issue of Formation Emploi proposes a longitudinal analysis of selection processes, since the aim is to disentangle the practical effects of selection in education from that in companies. While the prisms of training-employment adequacy and inequ...

The question of retraining lies at the heart of current employment policy issues. However, wanting to change occupation is no guarantee of completing a retraining programme, even less of finding a job. While low-skilled blue- and white-collar workers...

This issue of Formation Emploi explores the training-employment-work relationships for people with disabilities. Indeed, these people are particularly affected by unemployment and by lesser access to qualifications.

This issue of Formation Emploi explores the professional socialisation of young people who attended technical and vocational schools,  in different countries.

This issue of Formation Emploi explores the concept of support, whether it is a question of studying, in the light of labour law, the support of young people towards adult employee status, the intensive and effective support of young unemployed peopl...

Since the 1980s, all OECD countries have seen significant increases in the share of their populations completing their education with a higher education qualification. This drive to raise education levels is intended to help national economies deal w...

Employment instability and economic uncertainty have increased in many industrialized countries in the last two decades, giving rise to perceived employment insecurity among workers. It has been shown that perceived job insecurity (PJI) significantly...

How can young people successfully manage their departure from the education system and their early careers? This issue explores a lot of answers to these questions and challenges normative representations of the school-to-work transition. It sheds li...

The authors (Catherine Béduwé, Arnaud Dupray and Assâad El Akremi) explore how perceived job insecurity (PJI) evolves with time among early careers using a cohort of French school leavers over the period 1998-2008. The study intends to clarify why PJ...

The exhortation to be autonomous is ubiquitous in public policies. It is so widespread that the paradox inherent in it is almost completely forgotten. Autonomy cannot be ordained, any more than freedom can; rather  it is constructed, as this is...

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…

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...

Actes du Séminaire CAPRIGHT, Goettingen, 24-25 Septembre 2008. L'objectif de ce séminaire public était de mettre en débat l'application du concept de « capabilité » à l'analyse des parcours de vie et la comparaison de travaux sur les trajectoires in...

Searching for information, advice, career guidance, positioning recommendations, obtaining confirmation of eligibility, preparing application f i l e s , and undergoing assessments: the pathway to obtaining a diploma in France via the Validation of A...