From Education to Work

Introduction: transitions to employment in a cross-national perspective Walter R. Heinz; Part I. Social Origin, Gender, and Transition Patterns: 1. Social and geographical mobility twenty years after High-School Paul Anisef and Anton H. Turrittin; 2. Diverse directions: young adults' multiple transitions Zeng Lin, Victor Thiessen and E. Dianne Looker; 3. New routes to employment: integration and exclusion John Bynner; 4. From education to employment: occupations and careers in the social transformation of East Germany Ansgar Weymann; Part II. Education and Labour Markets: Work Experiences, Skills and Credentials: 5. Adolescent part-time work and post-secondary transitions in the United States Jeylan T. Mortimer and Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson; 6. Multiple life-sphere participation by young adults Lesley Andres; 7. The Sub-Baccalaureate labour market in the United States: challenges for the school-to-work transition W. Norton Grubb; 8. Creating new pathways to adulthood by adapting German apprenticeship in the United States Stephen F. Hamilton and Mary Agnes Hamilton; 9. Job entry patterns in a life-course perspective Walter R. Heinz; Part III. Changes in the Social Context of Transformations: 10. Institutional networks and informal strategies for improving work entry for youth James E. Rosenbaum; 11. School-work transitions and post-modern values: what's changing in Canada? Harvey Krahn and Graham S. Lowe; 12. Education and employment in Great Britain: the polarizing impact of the Market Frank Coffield; 13. From systems to networks: the reconstruction of youth transitions in Europe Lynne Chisholm.