The influence of initial education cannot be captured solely through the lens of the level of qualification achieved but has to be viewed from a genuinely dynamic perspective. It is an individual’s entire educational career that appears decisive. The studies take into account questions concerning advice or guidance on courses, selection, the financing of education, years of education repeated, academic trajectory, educational pathways followed and types of qualifications obtained. Thus among the young people who completed their education in 2013, three quarters of higher education graduates embarked on trajectories leading to stable employment. For those with upper secondary qualifications, only half gained access to such employment. Of these, holders of a CAP or BEP obtained through an apprenticeship effected the transition into the labour market more easily than their counterparts who went down the academic route. Just 21% of those with lower secondary qualifications only found stable employment.
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The Génération surveys
Since 1992, the "Géneration" surveys based on a longitudinal methodology, analyse school leavers’ job insertion and trajectories in their first years of active life. Every 3 years, a new survey is conducted among young people leaving the education system in the same year, according to their level of education or…
16 November 2020
About the school to work transition
The theme chosen for this first issue - the School-to-Work Transition - underpins a large part of Céreq’s scientific activities since its inception. Written by a former Scientific Director of Céreq, José Rose, professor of sociology, the introductory article presents different transition models showing the various ways education and work can be organized and linked to each other, as well as…
Tracking the 2010 cohort of leavers: preliminary results after 7 years How have the French young people who left the education system in 2010 at all levels and with or without qualifications higher than the lower secondary certificate fared in the labour market? What do the first 7 years of their working lives tell us about the structural changes taking…
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 representative sample of all young people leaving the education system in a given year. The main objective of these Generation surveys is to…
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 in five was looking for a job; in the case of those with only lower secondary qualifications, the figure was one in two. These levels are…