Transitions from School to Work : Globalization, Individualization, and Patterns of Diversity.

Transitions from School to Work : Globalization, Individualization, and Patterns of Diversity.

This volume provides a unique perspective on the global changes that have transformed school-to-work transitions since the 1970s; offers an integrative conceptual framework for analysis; and promotes a cross-national understanding of school-to-work transi.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schoon, Ingrid
Other Authors: Silbereisen, Rainer K.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Series:Jacobs Foundation series on adolescence.
Subjects:
Young adults > Employment.
School-to-work transition.
Young adults > Social conditions.
Vocational education.
Globalization.
Professional education.
globalism.
Professional education
Globalization
School-to-work transition
Vocational education
Young adults > Employment
Young adults > Social conditions
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Contributors; Acknowledgments; I INTRODUCTION; 1 Conceptualising School-to-Work Transitions in Context; Introduction; Towards a Unifying Framework for the Study of Transitions in Times of Social Change; Organisation of the Book; Outline of the Chapters; Conclusions; REFERENCES; 2 Thinking about the Transition to Adulthood: From Grand Narratives to Useful Theories; Grand Narratives and Diversity Lost; Emerging Adulthood as a Grand Narrative; From Totalizing Theory to Useful Theory.
  • RetroductiveMiddle Range; Developmental; Psychologically Functional; Interactive; Multiple Points of Entry; Concluding Remarks; REFERENCES; II TRANSITIONS AND GLOBAL CHANGE; 3 Is Stable Employment Becoming More Elusive for Young Men?; Background; CPS Sample and Definitions; CPS Results; PSID Sample and Definition of Nonwork; The PSID Results; Discussion; Conclusion: Implications for Public Policy; REFERENCES; 4 Youth Outcomes in the Labour Markets of Advanced Economies: Decline, Deterioration, and Causes; Introduction; The Pattern of Youth Outcomes in Countries' Labour Markets.
  • Analytical MethodEconomics; Statistics; Graphical Non-parametric Analysis; Econometric Analysis: Results; Conclusions; APPENDIX; Sources and Variables; Sources; Variables; Countries and Periods; REFERENCES; 5 Uncertain and Unable to Commit: A Fourteen-Country Comparison of the Impact of Globalization on the Early Life Course; Introduction; Globalization and Increasing Uncertainty; Globalization and Institutional Filters; Employment Relations; Educational Systems; Welfare Regimes and the Family; Micro-Level Response to Increasing Uncertainty; Uncertainty in the Transition to Adulthood.
  • Data and MethodsResults; The Emergence of Uncertainty; Consequences of Uncertainty for Family Formation; Conclusion; REFERENCES; III INDIVIDUAL DECISION MAKING; 6 'It Was Not My Choice, You Know?': Young People's Subjective Views and Decision-Making Processes in Biographical Transitions; Introduction; Destandardisation of Youth Transitions: From Linear Passages to Yo-Yo Movements; Excursus: Motivational Careers in Biographical Transitions; Agency and Biographical Dilemmas in Destandardised Transitions; Varying Scopes for Biographical Agency in Different Transition Regimes Across Europe.
  • ConclusionsREFERENCES; 7 From Paradigm to Paradox: Parental Support and Transitions to Independence; Introduction; The Data; The Changing Framework of Support; Legal Frameworks of Parental Responsibility; The Central Paradox of Support; Social-Class Differences; The Problem of Rational Action; The Social Construction of Parental Obligations; Tradition; Reciprocity; Fairness; Legitimacy; Mobilising and Accessing Economic Capital; Policy Implications; REFERENCES; 8 Job Attitudes and Job Aspirations in a Changing Labor Market: Germany, 1991-2006; The German Labor Market, 1991-2006.

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