Pathways to Adulthood: Sequences in the School-to-Work Transition in Finland, Norway and Sweden

Lorentzen, Thomas; Bäckman, Olof; Ilmakunnas, Ilari; Kauppinen, Timo M.

doi:10.1007/s11205-018-1877-4

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“…Although only a four-month maternity leave is reserved for mothers only, mothers continue to take the vast majority of all leave available. Thirdly, Finland is more traditional than the other Nordic countries regarding the employment of mothers: early motherhood is therefore a stronger predictor of labor market exclusion of young women in Finland than in Sweden and Norway (Lorentzen, Bäckman, Ilmakunnas, & Kauppinen, 2019) and the part-time labor market in Finland is weak (Rønsen & Sundstrom, 2002).…”

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The gendered impacts of delayed parenthood on educational and labor market outcomes: a dynamic analysis of population-level effects over young adulthood

Nisén

Bijlsma

Martikainen³

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Later parenthood is often beneficial for women, but less is known about its impact on men. As first births continue to occur later in life, it is important to understand whether this delay influences the educational and labor market outcomes of women and men differently, and how it changes the socioeconomic characteristics of children's parents at birth. However, education, employment, and fertility are linked, implying that complex models are required in order to analyze the time-varying impacts of delayed parenthood. We use dynamic longitudinal models and Finnish data to analyze how, and through which socioeconomic mechanisms, a material delay in parenthood is likely to influence educational and labor market outcomes over young adulthood. A three-year delay in young-adult parenthood for all women increases educational enrollment in their early 20s, employment in their late 20s, and partly due to higher education income in their 30s. The impact of the same delay for men is more modest, and almost negligible for their employment, suggesting that later parenthood exacerbates the educational advantage of women and attenuates the income advantage of men. However, it strengthens the socioeconomic standing of both men and women when they become parents, essentially due to the accumulation of effects.

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The gendered impacts of delayed parenthood on educational and labor market outcomes: a dynamic analysis of population-level effects over young adulthood

Nisén

Bijlsma

Martikainen³

et al. 2019

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“…The post-compulsory routes into typical and vocational education lead to high entrance to tertiary education. The employment rates are high both for men and women, while the transitions of entering the labor market are smooth and stable (Lorentzen et al, 2019).…”

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On the Measurement of Positive Labor Market Mobility

Symeonaki

Stamatopoulou

2020

SAGE Open

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The present article proposes a new labor market index, called the positive labor market mobility index, which focuses on quantifying the amount of “desired” labor market mobility present in the transitions of young individuals, providing a useful way of comparing countries on that matter. Well-established indices in the literature aiming at measuring mobility take into account all movements among states and/or the diagonal elements of the transition probability matrix that denote immobility. On the contrary, the index proposed in this study uses only “favorable” or “desired” movements among labor market states, providing a more relevant to labor mobility assessment index, where the interest lies in quantifying positive transitions, from education or training to employment, for example. The positive mobility index is estimated for individuals in Europe, whose age was 15 to 29 during the years of the financial crisis, from 2008 to 2015. Annually raw micro-data from the European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS) for these 8 years are used for this purpose. Moreover, the values of the proposed labor market mobility index are correlated with an early job insecurity indicator, estimated for the same age group. The results reveal the significant differences among European countries, when “desired” transitions of young individuals are taken into account. Moreover, the analysis performed indicates that the proposed index could be a good predictor for the degree of early job insecurity for young individuals in EU member states.

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“…The regime perspective on young people’s transitions has been exposed to extensive criticism. Questions have been raised, inter alia, about the existence of a uniform, universalistic regime in the Nordic countries (Helms Jørgensen et al., 2019; Lorentzen et al., 2019; Lundahl and Olofsson, 2014). Among other things, criticism has been voiced that the regime concept obscures fundamental differences between countries.…”

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Is the Swedish transition regime still universalistic? A study on growing socio-geographical differences in youth establishment patterns

Olofsson

Kvist

2020

Policy Futures in Education

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In welfare-policy studies, conditions are often depicted at a national level. This is the case not least in studies of young people’s paths and detours to working life. Studies at a high aggregation level have their advantages when it comes to distinguishing differences in living conditions between countries at similar economic development levels and examining the degree to which these differences can be related to institutional inequalities, differences in so-called welfare-policy regimes. But there is also a risk that studies of national regimes obscure the differences in socio-geographical conditions that exist in all countries. In this article we show how the socio-geographical conditions, to a great degree, affect young people’s ability to find work on the Swedish labor market with good development and support possibilities. A starting point is that the image of the Swedish transition regime as universalistic, as is often depicted in comparative research on young people’s transitions, obscures significant differences in young people’s transition and establishment patterns that are related to geographical residence. The Swedish universalistic regime encompasses a large and, over time, growing socio-geographically related spread of establishment opportunities for youths and young adults. We illustrate the circumstances by presenting comparable data in the form of an establishment index on the conditions for youths and young adults in Sweden’s 290 municipalities.

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Pathways to Adulthood: Sequences in the School-to-Work Transition in Finland, Norway and Sweden

Cited by 45 publications

References 43 publications

The gendered impacts of delayed parenthood on educational and labor market outcomes: a dynamic analysis of population-level effects over young adulthood

The gendered impacts of delayed parenthood on educational and labor market outcomes: a dynamic analysis of population-level effects over young adulthood

On the Measurement of Positive Labor Market Mobility

Is the Swedish transition regime still universalistic? A study on growing socio-geographical differences in youth establishment patterns

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