With young people among the big losers of the recent financial crisis, vocational education
and training (VET) is often seen as the silver bullet to the problem of youth joblessness. This …

This paper focuses on the determinants of the labor market situation of young people in
developed countries and the developing world, with a special emphasis on the role of …

This paper focuses on the determinants of the labor market situation of young people in
developed countries and the developing world, with a particular emphasis on the role of …

The aims of the present article are three-fold. First, we conduct a survey of the most
representative theoretical and empirical research on the emerging varieties of post …

Vocational education and training (VET) has been described in the sociological literature as
a mixed blessing. On one hand, vocational qualifications facilitate the school-to-work …

This paper reviews how young people's education-to-work transitions have changed since
1989 in former communist countries that have subsequently become full members of the …

While there is a rich literature on the school-to-work transition in developed countries, an
equally robust literature is lacking for post-communist countries. We analyse the patterns of …

This study estimates the extent to which apprenticeship affects the academic trajectories of
vocational high-school students. Previous research has shown that apprenticeship-based …

Names: Nico, Magda, editor.| Caetano, Ana (Sociologist), editor. Title: Structure and agency
in young people's lives: theory, methods and agendas/edited by Magda Nico and Ana …

Purpose This study seeks to show whether workplace experience (WE) in an apprenticeship
programme affects the duration of joblessness amongst recent university graduates and to …