TY - JOUR
T1 - Does it pay off to specialize? The interplay between educational specificity, level and cyclical sensitivity
AU - Mattijssen, Lucille
AU - Pavlopoulos, Dimitris
AU - Smits, Wendy
N1 - data source: Polisadministratie =+other registerdata (SSB)
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - This paper investigates how the specificity of the field of study is related to the quality of school-to-work transitions, and whether this relation is moderated by the level of education and the cyclical sensitivity of the field of study. We apply a processual approach and produce a typology of school-to-work transitions based on labor market position and income. This is done with multichannel sequence analysis on register data on school-leavers in the Netherland for the 2009–2010 cohort (N = 182,057). The results confirm that specificity is positively related to the quality of school-to-work transitions in terms of employment and income security. This however mostly holds for the highest levels of upper-secondary vocational education (ISCED 354), and much less for the lower levels of upper-secondary vocational education and tertiary education. In contrast to our expectations, specificity was more often related to positive career outcomes for cyclically sensitive fields of study.
AB - This paper investigates how the specificity of the field of study is related to the quality of school-to-work transitions, and whether this relation is moderated by the level of education and the cyclical sensitivity of the field of study. We apply a processual approach and produce a typology of school-to-work transitions based on labor market position and income. This is done with multichannel sequence analysis on register data on school-leavers in the Netherland for the 2009–2010 cohort (N = 182,057). The results confirm that specificity is positively related to the quality of school-to-work transitions in terms of employment and income security. This however mostly holds for the highest levels of upper-secondary vocational education (ISCED 354), and much less for the lower levels of upper-secondary vocational education and tertiary education. In contrast to our expectations, specificity was more often related to positive career outcomes for cyclically sensitive fields of study.
KW - multichannel sequence analysis
KW - educational specificity
KW - school-to-work transition
KW - non-standard employment
U2 - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102782
DO - 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102782
M3 - Article
C2 - 36470640
SN - 0049-089X
VL - 109
JO - Social Science Research
JF - Social Science Research
M1 - 102782
ER -