Abstract
Youth first footsteps at the labour market (LM) affect the further career and also relate to other life domains. The trajectories depend not only on the personal characteristic of the young person but also on the institutional settings, especially on educational system, labour market regulations, employment policies and overall economic climate. Therefore, the labour market transition sequences could take different paths in different countries.
This chapter provides an insight into youth labour market trajectories specific to countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). The first part describes the role of institutions in labour market transitions providing an overview of institutional disparities, and similarities across the CEE countries. Analytical part follows, in which microdata from the EU statistics on income and living conditions (EU-SILC) datasets are used to depict labour market transitions of young people, with different educational attainment from CEE and EU benchmark countries: Finland, Austria, the UK and Italy.
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Notes
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Type of stratification refers to the number and type of transitions to the next educational level.
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Standardization is the degree to which the quality of education meets the same standards nationwide (Allmendinger 1989: 46).
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OECD/IAB Employment Protection Database, 2013 update, see: www.oecd.org/employment/protection
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OECD.Stat Database, 2014, see: https://stats.oecd.org/Index.aspx?DataSetCode=LMPEXP#, Active measures 10–70, Passive measures 80.
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Ibid, 2013 data as 2014 not available for Poland.
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In our sample in comparison to the representative LFS data, there is a slight overrepresentation of those with upper secondary education and underrepresentation of youth with university degree.
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Eurostat: participation rate in education and training by age [trng_aes_101], last update: 11-08-2015
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Eurostat: LMP expenditure (source: DG EMPL) [lmp_ind_exp], last update: 29-08-2016
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Rokicka, M., Unt, M., Täht, K., Nizalova, O. (2018). Youth Labour Market in Central and Eastern Europe. In: Malo, M., Moreno Mínguez, A. (eds) European Youth Labour Markets. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68222-8_5
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