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Comparative perspectives: education and training system effects on youth transitions and opportunities

Comparative perspectives: education and training system effects on youth transitions and opportunities
Comparative perspectives: education and training system effects on youth transitions and opportunities

This chapter aims to do two things. First, it discusses the literature on the different types of upper secondary education and training systems across OECD countries and reviews some historical evidence on the differential effects of these systems on youth transitions. A typology of upper secondary systems is developed, drawing on the traditional classifications by educational characteristics within comparative education and taking into account the contextual influences of different labor market regimes and welfare systems elaborated in the comparative political economy literature. The effects of the different types of system on skills outcomes are analyzed in terms of their impacts on levels and distributions of young people's literacy and numeracy skills, using the recent data from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills. The implications of these different skills outcomes for youth transitions are considered. Second, the chapter reviews the evidence on changes across countries in youth transitions since the beginning of the 2007/2008 financial crisis – in terms of education participation rates, youth and graduate unemployment and employment rates, graduate wage premia, and rates of return to degrees – and considers how upper secondary education and training systems may have mediated these. It concludes that the upper secondary education training systems continue to exercise differential influences on youth transitions as before the crisis and that varying effects of the crisis on youth transitions across countries are most likely mainly due to different labor market conditions
75-100
Cambridge University Press
Green, Andy
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Pensiero, Nicola
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Schoon, Ingrid
Bynner, John
Green, Andy
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Pensiero, Nicola
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Schoon, Ingrid
Bynner, John

Green, Andy and Pensiero, Nicola (2017) Comparative perspectives: education and training system effects on youth transitions and opportunities. In, Schoon, Ingrid and Bynner, John (eds.) Comparative Perspectives: Education and Training System Effects on Youth Transitions and Opportunities. Cambridge, UK. Cambridge University Press, pp. 75-100. (doi:10.1017/9781316779507.005).

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This chapter aims to do two things. First, it discusses the literature on the different types of upper secondary education and training systems across OECD countries and reviews some historical evidence on the differential effects of these systems on youth transitions. A typology of upper secondary systems is developed, drawing on the traditional classifications by educational characteristics within comparative education and taking into account the contextual influences of different labor market regimes and welfare systems elaborated in the comparative political economy literature. The effects of the different types of system on skills outcomes are analyzed in terms of their impacts on levels and distributions of young people's literacy and numeracy skills, using the recent data from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills. The implications of these different skills outcomes for youth transitions are considered. Second, the chapter reviews the evidence on changes across countries in youth transitions since the beginning of the 2007/2008 financial crisis – in terms of education participation rates, youth and graduate unemployment and employment rates, graduate wage premia, and rates of return to degrees – and considers how upper secondary education and training systems may have mediated these. It concludes that the upper secondary education training systems continue to exercise differential influences on youth transitions as before the crisis and that varying effects of the crisis on youth transitions across countries are most likely mainly due to different labor market conditions

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e-pub ahead of print date: October 2017

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Local EPrints ID: 441173
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/441173
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ORCID for Nicola Pensiero: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2823-9852

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Author: Andy Green
Author: Nicola Pensiero ORCID iD
Editor: Ingrid Schoon
Editor: John Bynner

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