FROM SCHOOL TO WORK

	Yossi Shavit, Walter Müller (eds.)
	From School to Work
	A Comparative Study of Educational Qualifications and Occupational Destinations

	550 S., Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1998
	ISBN 0-19-829322-4

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Abstract:

This fascinating comparative study presents the latest research into the value of qualifications for the attainment of first job, and in securing employment. A team of some of the world's leading scholars in the field examine the ways in which educational qualifications affect the occupational outcomes of men and women in t thirteen countries. The book features chapters on each of these countries, together with a lead chapter which integrates them, and analyses them comparatively. The authors present a wealth of rich and detailed information on educational institutions in these various countries, as well as reports on rigorous statistical analyses of the associations between qualifications and occupations. The data reveals marked differences between countries in how education shapes occupational attainment, and indicates that these differences are related, in very systematic ways, to the institutional characteristics of school systems. The book offers a range of insightful policy-oriented observations, for example that vocational education is valuable in countries where training is occupationally specific, but is of little value where the curricula are general in content.

CONTENTS

	Preface
1	The institutional embededness of the stratification process: a comparative study of qualifications and occupations in thirteen countries Walter Müller and Yossi Shavit
2	The transition from school to work in Australia Frank Jones
3	Education and occupation in Britain Anthony Heath and Sin Yi Cheung
4	From education to first job: the French case Dominique Goux and Eric Maurin
5	Education and labour market entry in Germany Walter Müller, Susanne Steinmann and Renate Ell
6	Investment in education: educational qualifications and class of entry in the Republic of Ireland Richard Breen and Christopher Whelan
7	The transition from school to work in Israel Yossi Shavit, Vered Kraus, and Meir Yaish
8	Occupational returns to education in contemporary Italy Antonio Schizzerotto and Antonio Cobalti
9	Educational credentials and labour market entry outcomes in Japan Hiroshi Ishida
10	From high school and college to work in Japan—meritocracy through institutional and semi-institutional linkages Takehiko Kariya
11	Education and early occupation in the Netherlands around 1990: categorical and continuous scales and the details of a relationship Paul M. De Graaf and Wout C. Ultee
12	Allocation processes in the Swedish labour market Jan O. Jonsson and Robert Erikson
13	The transition from school to work in Switzerland: do characteristics of the educational system and class barriers matter? Marlis Buchmann and Stefan Sacchi
14	The transition from school to work in Taiwan Shu-Ling Tsai
15	The early returns: the transition from school to work in the United States Richard Arum and Mike Hout
	Index
	Bibliography

Notes on Contributors

Richard ARUM is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona

Richard BREEN is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Social Research, Queen's University, Belfast

Marlis BUCHMANN is Professor of Sociology at the University of Zurich and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology

Sin Yi CHEUNG is a Swire Scholar at St. Anthony's College, Oxford

Antonio COBALTI is Dean of Sociology at the University of Trento

Paul M. DE GRAAF is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Nijmegen

Renate ELL is Research Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research

Robert ERIKSON is Professor of Sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research in Stockholm, and a Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Dominique GOUX is Research Fellow at the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Surveys (INSEE) in Paris

Anthony HEATH is Professor of Sociology at the University of Oxford and Official Fellow of Nuffield College

Mike HOUT is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Survey Research Center at the University of Berkeley, California

Hiroshi ISHIDA is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tokyo

Frank JONES is Professor of Sociology in the Research School of Social Sciences of the Australian National University

Jan O. Jonsson is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Swedish Institute for Social Research

Takehiko KARIYA is Associate Professor of Sociology at the Graduate School of Education, University of Tokyo

Vered KRAUS is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Haifa

Eric MAURIN is head of the Households Living Conditions division of the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Surveys (INSEE) in Paris

Walter MÜLLER is Professor of Sociology at the University of Mannheim and Visiting Professor at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Stefan SACCHI is Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich

Antonio SCHIZZEROTTO is Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Trento

Yossi SHAVIT is Associate Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Tel Aviv and Professor of Sociology at the European University Institute

Susanne STEINMANN is Research Fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research

Shu-Ling TSAI is Research Fellow at the Institute of Sociology at the Academia Sinica in Taipei

Wout C. ULTEE is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nijmegen

Christopher WHELAN is a Research Professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute in Dublin

Meir YAISH is Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford

Clare TAME (associate editor) is Research Associate in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the European University Institute