Sessione 13 - The Territorial Dimension of School-to-Work Transitions: Youth Opportunities across Space, Contexts and Multilevel Governance

Coordinatori di sessione: Ruggero Cefalo (Università di Vienna), Rosario Scandurra (Università Autonoma di Barcellona), Yuri Kazepov (Università di Vienna)

Abstract:
The transition from school to work is a crucial moment in the lives of young people that shapes their future careers and life trajectories. Integrating young labour markets with society therefore represents a key challenge; many young people are disillusioned with the working landscape, which has changed quickly due to macroeconomic shocks, as well as the pandemic and its socio-economic consequences. The territorial element of youth integration has often been underestimated in comparative analysis, but recent evidence suggests the existence of significant variation in youth integration within countries. The territorial dimension of youth labour market integration is affected by multilevel governance structures, youth agency, and other contextual factors that produce differentiated outcomes, or contextual structures of opportunities. This is a complex picture, and thus there is a need to include this aspect and its multiple scales within the analytical frame of school-to-work transition.

Accepted paper:

• Apprenticeships for promoting youth school-to-work transition: does it enhance inclusion or the reproduction of inequalities? di Sandra D'Agostino (INAPP), Silvia Vaccaro (INAPP)
• The Multilevel Governance of the Pathways for Transversal Skills and Orientation (PCTO) in Italy di Paola Giannoni (Università di Genova), Valeria Pandolfini (Università di Genova), Mauro Palumbo (Università di Genova), Claudio Torrigiani (Università di Genova)
• The complexity of causes behind the Italian NEET status: different strategies for different NEET profiles di Antonella Rocca (Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope), Adriano Mauro Ellena, Elena Marta, Daniela Marzana (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore), Giovanni De Luca, Paolo Mazzocchi, Federica Pizzolante (Università degli Studi di Napoli Parthenope), Francisco Simões (CIS-ISCTE Università di Lisbona)
• Beyond Individual Responsibility: Exploring the Role of Opportunity Structures in Learning Outcomes di Nikoletta Jablonczay (University of Vienna)