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Inequalities in the labor market and transition to adulthood. Italy in a crossnational analyses
Journal Title: SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO  
Author/s: Orazio Giancola, Luca Salmieri 
Year:  2016 Issue: 144 Language: Italian 
Pages:  18 Pg. 118-135 FullText PDF:  122 KB
DOI:  10.3280/SL2016-144008
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In thepaper, authors estimate how occupational related dimensions - employement or unemployment, job qualification, income - continues to play a crucial role in young generations transition to adulthood, influencing opportunities and constraints of social attainment, in relation to background inequalities. For this purpose, five European countries, including Italy, have been compared in order to asses whether and how social origins inquealities, mediated by educational lattainment and by occupational attainment, affect the completion of transition to adulthood measured as cohabitation and parenthood. Analyeses are based on OECD PIAAC international data, focusing on population aged between 30-39 years (young-adults), in Italy, France, Germany, Poland and Spain.
Keywords: Labour market inequalities, transition to adulthood, educational and occupational attainment

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Orazio Giancola, Luca Salmieri, Inequalities in the labor market and transition to adulthood. Italy in a crossnational analyses in "SOCIOLOGIA DEL LAVORO " 144/2016, pp. 118-135, DOI:10.3280/SL2016-144008

   

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