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 it was set up in 2010, the voluntary community service scheme has become more diversified, with regard to both its objectives and the uses made of it. Analysis of its role in young people’s education-to-work transition reveals the importance of the stage in individual trajectories at which young people volunteer, of their level of qualification and of the type of education and training…
Working conditions in France are quite heterogeneous. They vary according to the socio-demographic characteristics of employees but are also linked to their career paths. Employees who have made progress by changing companies without becoming unemployed demonstrate the highest levels of satisfaction with the conditions in which their work is carried out and frequently perceive their work as a…
Uno de cada ocho jóvenes de la generación 2010 obtuvo un nuevo diploma en los cinco años siguientes al fin de su formación inicial. Las formas de estos retornos precoces al camino de los diplomas son muy variadas, al igual…
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…