Tempi difficili. Le condizioni occupazionali degli early school leavers in Italia prima e dopo la crisi

Borgna, Camilla; Struffolino, Emanuela

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“…This is especially true in the Italian labor market, which has historically been plagued by high inactivity rates among women, even in their early career phases (Barbieri et al 2015;Brzinsky-Fay 2015). The increasing labor-market participation of recent cohorts has mostly pertained to women with upper-secondary or tertiary education but not to those with lower education levels (Borgna and Struffolino 2019;Scherer and Reyneri 2008). The gender implications of early school leaving are not clear-cut.…”

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Who is really ‘left behind’? Half a century of gender differences in the school-to-work transitions of low-educated youth

Struffolino

Borgna

2020

Journal of Youth Studies

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At a time of growing expectations about educational attainment, young people who did not complete upper-secondary schooling can easily be 'left behind' to face risks of social exclusion. Being able to make a rapid and successful transition into a first significant job is crucial for long-term labor-market attachment. We approach the question of continuity or change in school-towork transitions by comparing the experiences of four birth cohorts of early school leavers in Italy, where they still constitute a sizeable group as of today. Italy makes for an interesting case study due to the length of school-to-work transitions and the extent of gender differences in this phase. In an era of educational expansion and increased female activation, studying changes in low-educated women's labor-market access brings into focus the question of who is really left behind. Using data from the 2009 'Multi-purpose Survey on Household and Social Subjects,' we use discrete time logistic regression models to estimate the probability of transitioning to the first significant job for early school leavers born between 1954 and 1993. We find that gender differences are strikingly persistent across birth cohorts, even after controlling for sociodemographic variables as well as for time-varying fertility and partnership histories.

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Who is really ‘left behind’? Half a century of gender differences in the school-to-work transitions of low-educated youth

Struffolino

Borgna

2020

Journal of Youth Studies

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“Look at Me, but Better”: The Experience of Young NEET Migrant Women between Vulnerability and Stifled Ambitions

Zanfrini

Giuliani

2023

Social Sciences

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The experience and the condition of the vulnerability of young immigrant women with NEET status are not acknowledged in both research and social policy. Within the extreme variety gathered under the term NEET, this present article aims at exploring the experience of a group of young non-EU migrant women aged between 18 and 31 living in Italy, who at the time of their participation in this study, were not engaged in education, employment, or training. Nineteen semi-structured interviews have been collected involving young women who migrated from Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Morocco, Pakistan, and Tunisia, in most cases through family reunification. Thematic analysis carried out on interview transcripts highlights the complexity and richness of the stories and experiences narrated by participants, composing a heterogeneous group marked by different levels of vulnerability and resilience capabilities, language skills, and involvement in the goal of finding a job. The perception of vulnerability that emerges from the women interviewed refers mainly to the relational dimension of life, which appears to be characterized by loneliness, a sense of isolation, and feelings of extraneousness (not belonging) with respect to an external context. Implications for policies aimed at this specific group of foreign women are discussed.

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Tempi difficili. Le condizioni occupazionali degli early school leavers in Italia prima e dopo la crisi

Cited by 2 publications

References 33 publications

Who is really ‘left behind’? Half a century of gender differences in the school-to-work transitions of low-educated youth

Who is really ‘left behind’? Half a century of gender differences in the school-to-work transitions of low-educated youth

“Look at Me, but Better”: The Experience of Young NEET Migrant Women between Vulnerability and Stifled Ambitions

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