To investigate individual trajectories is to get to grips with career trajectories and initial and continuing training pathways. Céreq analyses all these trajectories and pathways and their evolution, in a context in which there tends to be greater permeability between employment and education/training and between initial and continuing education/training. Céreq bases its studies on field observations, interviews and statistical surveys. Among the last named, the Générations surveys (a national programme that tracks the early years of the working lives of young people with all levels of education and training) and the Defis surveys (on continuing training for employees) provide insights into these trajectories in all their complexity and over their entire duration.

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This  working paper provides a snapshot of labour market trends regarding the 15-29 year-old group across Europe in the first (2008-2010) and second period (2010-2013) of downturn, moving towards to a capability approach-inspired vision of employment.

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The speciality in vocational training is often assumed to generate additional earnings only if the individual obtains a job in the same employment speciality. The results obtained for the youth finishing professional education in 1998, surveyed in 2001 in both France and Germany, indicate that this point of view must be nuanced. To begin with, a hierarchy of salaries exists among educational…

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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…

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