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In and Around 4 - About career transitionsIn and Around 4
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About career transitions

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...

In and Around, n° 4 , November 2023, 55 p.
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Has the crisis disrupted thirty-somethings’ career trajectories?

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...

Training and Employment, n° 159 , June 2023, 4 p.
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Young people spending time abroad: European targets partially achieved, but access remains unequal

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...

Training and Employment, n° 136 , March 2019, 4 p.
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When Education has finished

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...

Cereq Surveys, n° 1 , October 2017, 76 p.
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2016 survey of the 2013 cohort: No improvement in the education-to-work transition for young people with lower secondary qualifications only

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...

Training and Employment, n° 129 , October 2017, 4 p.
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PhDs' early career trajectories strongly differentiated

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...

Training and Employment, n° 127 , June 2017, 4 p.
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The early careers of the second generations: a double ethnic penalty?

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...

Training and Employment, n° 119 , February 2016, 4 p.
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Do young graduates with professional and vocational master's degrees regard themselves as competent to hold their jobs?

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...

Training and Employment, n° 118 , December 2015, 4 p. p.
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After higher education, then what? Génération 2010 survey 2013 wave

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...

Nef, n° 52 , September 2015, 60 p.
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Making the transition from higher education to work: the variable effects of vocational courses

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...

Training and Employment, n° 97 , May 2012, 4 p.
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Tough going in labour market for PhDs

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...

Training and Employment, n° 91 , January 2011, 4 p.
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Recognition of higher education graduates' competences on European labour markets

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...

Training and Employment, n° 83 , December 2008, 4 p.