In a fast-changing global context impacted by major societal shift (climate, digital, demographic) and turmoil (pandemics, international political instability), economies are transforming, skills required on the labour market are evolving and profess...

How have the working lives of young people in their thirties, the “hard core” of the economically active population in employment, been affected by the health crisis of 2020? The results of the Génération survey: Covid et après? (After Covid what?) s...

The “ecological” or “green” transition has become a key concept in current political debates (e.g. the European Green New Deal in August 2021), following that of “sustainable development” promoted by the Rio Summit of 1992. Whatever the precise term...

The effects of the health crisis have forced businesses in many sectors to deal with a sharp decline in activity, which in some cases is likely to last a long time. A series of measures already exist to support employees obliged to find alternative e...

The case of the waste recovery and recycling sector  In a national and international economic context in which jobs and skills are changing rapidly, prospective analysis is an approach that the economic partners and public authorities in France...

A European indicator, constructed in part using data from Céreq's Génération survey, shows that France is fairly well positioned when it comes to the time the country's students spend abroad in the course of their studies, even though the 2020 target...

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...

For those who obtained their PhDs in 2010, research remains the main opening. If they embark on careers in public-sector research, their trajectories during the first five years of their working lives are synonymous with periods of temporary employme...

Professional and vocational courses requiring 5 years’ post-secondary study are supposed to meet specific needs for competences in a given area of employment. Young graduates believe they have acquired the specific competences they think their employ...

What became of the 369,000 young people who left higher education in 2010, with or without a degree?  In order to answer that question, Céreq has analysed the first three years of the working lives of the 2010 cohort of leavers, who were surveye...

Young people who left higher education in 2007 have found it more difficult to find employment as a result of the economic crisis, as the 2010 survey of 2007 cohort of HE leavers shows. However, although unemployment has increased, job quality has, o...

One proven way of protecting oneself from 'precarity' and unemployment is to obtain a university degree. However, some PhDs are experiencing increasing difficulties in finding stable employment. Traditionally destined for careers in academic and othe...

The number of students attending higher education institutions has more than doubled in Europe during the last twenty-five years. The resulting flow of graduates on the labour market may justify the doubts expressed about these young people's career...

The French Law of May 2004, wich introduced new tools for managing lifelong learning, has had considerable impact on firms, which are the main players in the vocational training field. Although some firms have responded rather passively to the new le...