Issues in the school-to-work transition: evidence from the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth
The purpose of this article is to examine how accurate pessimistic accounts of the school-to-work transition are, given the substantial decline in unemployment since the 1991/93 recession. This examination is limited to young people who did not go to university, a group which is more likely to be experiencing problematic school-to-work transitions. The analyses use data from the first eight waves of data from the 1995 Year 9 cohort in the Longitudinal Surveys of Australian Youth (LSAY) project. In the years after leaving school, an increasing majority are in full-time work and there is conside ... Show more
Authors: Marks, Gary N.
Published: Thousand Oaks, California, Sage Publications, 2005
Resource type: Article
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