All roads leading to Rome? The medium term outcomes of Australian youth’s transition pathways from education

Youth transitions to employment: longitudinal evidence from marginalised young people in England

“…This is important as there are likely to be negative consequences, such as long-term negative scarring effects on wellbeing, health status and job satisfaction (Bell and Blanchflower 2011). There is also growing evidence that early transitions and 'pathways' themselves are predictive of longer-term outcomes and future labour market experiences (Anders and Dorsett 2017;Cebulla and Whetton 2018).…”

“…In order to examine the transitions made by TM participants, a typology of different transitional groups was created to explore the routes young people had taken in terms of securing employment (or not) and whether this had been sustained. The development of this typology provides a methodological contribution to a growing body of quantitative work in youth studies focusing less on single-status change and instead adopting a more process outcome approach (Schoon and Lyons-Amos 2016;Cebulla and Whetton 2018). While qualitative research has utilised longitudinal techniques relatively widely to examine ongoing change (for example MacDonald et al [2005] and Simmons, Russell, and Thompson [2014]), traditionally quantitative approaches have taken a more static approach, in part due to the extent and nature of the data available, for example focusing on the marker of entry to employment but not what happens next.…”

“…Increased availability of longitudinal datasets and methodological advances in the social sciences, however, such as the use of sequence analysis techniques, have started to allow an examination of more holistic trajectories (see Dlouhy and Biemann, [2015] for a summary of studies on careers and occupational trajectories using optimal matching analysis). Cebulla and Whetton (2018), building on the work of Fry and Boulton (2013), provide a recent example of the use of optimal matching and cluster analysis to examine labour market pathways of young Australians. Similarly, Schoon and Lyons-Amos (2016) used sequence analysis to examine transition patterns among cohorts born in 1980-1984 and 1985-1989 featuring in the British Household Panel Study.…”

Chasing rainbows: How many educational qualifications do young people need to acquire meaningful, ongoing work?

“…There are three forms of underemployment: working fewer hours than one wishes to work (underutilised workers); not being paid at a level commensurate with one's level of education, skill or experience; and being over-qualified for a job (Heyes et al, 2017). Due to churning between unemployment, underemployment and precarious jobs (Cebulla and Whetton, 2017), underutilised workers report lower levels of job satisfaction and wellbeing (Heyes et al, 2017). Young people entering the labour market are particularly susceptible to churning (Bell and Blanchflower, 2011), with entry-level jobs characterised by variability in hours and earnings; non-standard hours; and casual or short-term contracts (Hardgrove et al, 2015).…”

Adjusting to new employment landscapes: Consequences of precarious employment for young Australians

“…In Australia, despite more than two decades of continuous economic growth, the economy is characterised by concerning levels of unemployment and underemployment for young workers. Within the labour market, young people are particularly vulnerable and risk becoming trapped in an unemployment–underemployment cycle, churning between unemployment and insecure employment (Cebulla and Whetton, 2017; Furlong et al, 2017; McDonald, 2011). Given that the terms insecure employment, precarious employment and contingent employment refer to employment that is not secured by a permanent contract (Buddelmeyer et al, 2015), we use the terms interchangeably in this article.…”