Une étape du passage â l'âge adulte : l'emploi qui compte
Rougerie (Catherine), Courtois (Jocelyn).- A step towards adulthood: the first real job By the age of 25, the great majority of young people are employed on a permanent work contract. But indicators based on the type of contract provide an incomplete picture of the changes which may occur in the process of obtaining employment. A good starting point for a more subjective approach to this question is provided by the Passage à l'âge adulte ('Coming of Age') survey, conducted by INED in 1993. In this young people were asked to describe their first real job. It emerges that the great majority of respondents found this job before the age of 25 but only after a relatively long process since it very often took longer than two years. Some had already had several jobs before finding their real one; others found it straight away. Some had experienced long-term employment; others had not. And behind the different patterns of insertion, there are the processes whereby initial ambitions are subject to varying degrees of reduction. Subjective exploration makes it possible to identify patterns of differential behaviour in which, for example, social origins are related to the type of itinerary accomplished. The subjective approach cannot replace the classic objective questions, but it does indicate the importance of reflection on individual situations that are becoming less sharply defined, and on itineraries that no longer run smoothly from education to stable employment and may on the contrary involve a 'backward step', such as returning to live with parents after a disappointing first experience of work.
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1997
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Authors: | Courtois, Jocelyn ; Rougerie, Catherine |
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Population (french edition). - Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED). - Vol. 52.1997, 6, p. 1297-1327
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Institut National d'Études Démographiques (INED) |
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