Pelikh, Alina;
Rowe, Francisco;
(2024)
Increasing diversity, precarity and prolonged periods of education in the transition from school to work in Britain.
Population, Space and Place
, 30
(7)
, Article e2771. 10.1002/psp.2771.
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Abstract
This paper investigates whether the British pattern of an early transition from school to work persists. We apply sequence analysis to data from the British Household Panel Survey and the U.K. Household Longitudinal Study to study how education and employment trajectories of young adults born in 1974–1990 differ by 5-year birth cohort, gender, and socioeconomic background. The distinctive British early transition from school to work is still prevalent, although trajectories have become more complex and precarious with an increase in part-time employment and prolonged stays in education among the youngest cohorts. Occupational outcomes of highly educated men and women were similar. However, women who did not continue education were more likely to experience turbulent transitions with longer spells of part-time work and inactivity. The proportion of university graduates from lower socioeconomic backgrounds has increased, yet their chances of being in professional and managerial occupations remain significantly lower.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Increasing diversity, precarity and prolonged periods of education in the transition from school to work in Britain |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1002/psp.2771 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1002/psp.2771 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2024 The Authors. Population, Space and Place published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
| Keywords: | British Household Panel Survey, education, life course, school-to-work trajectories, sequence analysis, UK, Understanding Society |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189756 |
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