The paper presents a comparative empirical study on school to work transitions in a range of European countries. The project (CATEWE 1996-2000) [Comparative analysis of transitions from education to work in Europe] is funded by the TSER [Targeted socio-economic research] program. Discussed are the main conceptual and methodological approaches, empirical databases, progress to date with the study and some initial results from a related earlier research project carried out under the Leonardo da Vinci program.
The main objectives of the CATEWE project are to: (a) develop a comparative conceptual f
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The paper presents a comparative empirical study on school to work transitions in a range of European countries. The project (CATEWE 1996-2000) [Comparative analysis of transitions from education to work in Europe] is funded by the TSER [Targeted socio-economic research] program. Discussed are the main conceptual and methodological approaches, empirical databases, progress to date with the study and some initial results from a related earlier research project carried out under the Leonardo da Vinci program.
The main objectives of the CATEWE project are to: (a) develop a comparative conceptual framework to study school to work transitions in EU [European Union] countries with different institutional systems; and (b) apply that model to both comparative stock analyses of labour force surveys (LFS) in most EU countries, and comparative flow analyses of school to work transition surveys (SLS) in five EU countries - France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Scotland and Sweden. To do this effectively we need to develop: (c) a set of comparatively defined variables which adequately capture the complexities of school to work transitions in France, Ireland, the Netherlands, Scotland and Sweden - as measured both by ‘flow statistics’ in their national school to work transition surveys and as ‘stock’ statistics in their national labour force surveys.
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The volume from which this chapter is taken is indexed at TD/TNC 66.509. Volumes one and two are indexed at TD/TNC 66.507 and TD/TNC 66.508. Individual chapters from the three volume set are indexed from TD/TNC 66.510 to TD/TNC 66.540.
The first background report, published in two volumes, is indexed at TD/IRD 88.38 and TD/INT 58.286.
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