Any attempt to construct a detailed vision of the conditions under which individuals access employment has to take into account structural changes in the functioning of the labour market. Céreq analyses the role the following play in the early years of the working life: the public service, entrepreneurship and the transition into or entrapment in fixed-term contracts, which has become the commonest mode of entry into employment. Studies have also investigated the development of multiple careers and of employment in the sharing economy for young people and throughout individuals’ entire career trajectories.
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2023 poll of the Génération 2017 surveyResearch indicates that career changes are not an uncommon occurrence at the start of a working life. The monitoring of the first six years of employment of young people reveals that 25% of those who left initial training in 2017 considered changing direction and took steps to do so between 2020 and 2023. This phenomenon is particularly pronounced…
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 with rapid changes. While it is still too early to assess the scale of the effects of these changes over the long term, we can legitimately seek to…
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 modifies economic behaviours such as saving, consumption and entry to further education, reduces job performance and generates adverse health and…
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 PJI increases both with years of experience and tenure in a firm in contradiction with expectations. The human capital content of experience and…
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 individuelles dans différents pays, à partir d'échanges avec d'autres chercheurs dans ces domaines. Le séminaire était organisé en…
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 Acquired Experience (VAE) scheme is long and complex, as many candidates have agreed. They are expected to collect together a large number of…