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- Kvist, Martin
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Varken resurs eller problem : om lågutbildade ungas etablerings- och försörjningsmöjligheter
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis explores labour market opportunities for young people based on the assumption that these opportunities vary depending on the local socio-economic context (level of education, level of income, the proportion of employed within the population). The situation for young people with low education, i.e. those who have not completed grundskolan (primary school) or gymnasieskolan (upper secondary school) is specifically focused. The thesis explores two conditions of importance for low-educated young people:the possibilities of developing elements of vocational education/training within the introductory programmes of the Swedish gymnasium (upper secondary school) andto what extent public labour market policy and municipal social welfare meet the needs of low educated young people with low income. In the thesis, quantitative and qualitative methods are combined. Official statistics, primarily from Statistics Sweden (SCB), are used to explore how the impact of socio-economic context on labour market establishment patterns of young people can be understood and made visible. This is done by summarizing a collection of favourable and less favourable conditions and outcomes related to the establishment patterns of young people at the municipal level in Sweden. Statistics related to individuals who have been registered in Malmö has also been used. Information about where the individuals have been living and about their family and educational background enables an understanding of the impact of the socio-economic context but also makes it possible to explore the effects of educational orientation. The qualitative material of the thesis consists of interviews with 14 representatives of the social partners, including both employer and union representatives, as well as representatives from the Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket) and Swedish Public Employment Service (Arbetsförmedlingen).An important observation in the thesis is that the vast majority of the group with a precarious establishment situation, i.e. an income below two price base amounts, do not receive social assistance or state benefits from the employment service. A follow up of individuals who were registered in Malmö and attended year 6 of primary school in Malmö in 2008, shows that among those defined as NEET:s the majority lacked completed upper secondary education, and only a small proportion of them received any social benefits.The results of the thesis also indicate that educational orientation is of great importance for young people's establishment and support opportunities. Young people with a background in one of the upper secondary school's vocational programmes are to a greater extent employed and have higher incomes compared to those with no upper-secondary education and those with a background in a university preparatory program. This also applies to the group that did not conduct any studies during the follow-up year. Furthermore, the results indicate that vocational education also has positive effects on those who started but did not complete such an education.The results of the thesis also indicate that there is scepticism among the social partners to employ low-educated young people and young people who have attended the upper secondary school's introductory programmes. The respondents of the thesis expressed scepticism about expanding the elements of vocational education within the introductory programmes.
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- Lundahl, Lisbeth, 1951-, et al.
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Guarded transitions? : Youth trajectories and school-to-work transition policies in Sweden
- 2014
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Ingår i: International Journal of Adolescence and Youth. - London : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0267-3843 .- 2164-4527. ; 19:Suppl 1, s. 19-34
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In Sweden as in most other OECD countries, school-to-work transitions have become extended and uncertain endeavours. School dropout and youth unemployment rates are comparatively high, and the so-called yo–yo transitions are common. Although traditionally characterised as a prominent example of a social democratic welfare regime, Sweden has recently incorporated numerous neo-liberal ideas into its educational and youth policies. The responsibility for managing and implementing these policies has been extensively devolved to the country’s 290 municipalities. Moreover, young people are increasingly expected to take exclusive responsibility for forging their own careers, and to be self-governing, enterprising and proactive, both within the educational quasi-market and beyond. The aim of this article was to critically analyse current Swedish national school-to-work transition policies as well as the ways in which local strategies and measures are implemented and developed within individual municipalities given the relatively broad latitude available to them, and to provide some tentative explanations for Sweden’s problems with school dropout rates and youth unemployment.
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- Lundahl, Lisbeth, 1951-, et al.
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No particular way to go : careers of young adults lacking upper secondary qualifications
- 2017
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Ingår i: Journal of Education and Work. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1363-9080 .- 1469-9435. ; 30:1, s. 39-52
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article aims to deepen understanding of the trajectories through school and into adulthood of people who did not attain valued qualifications from upper secondary school ('non-completers'), and explore the fruitfulness of careership theory for such analysis. It is based on interviews with 100 young Swedes: 81 non-completers and 19 who had attended special upper secondary schools catering for young people with mild cognitive disability. Their narratives portray sparse socio-economic resources and difficult family situations, learning problems and marginalisation processes in school. They commonly learned to perceive themselves as failures and 'different'. Framed by narrow horizons of action, these young people's careers were mostly characterised by enforced rather than self-initiated turning points. Often leading to unemployment and economic problems, leaving secondary school was less of a turning point than a continuation of failure, even if completing adult education and getting a job were regarded as self-initiated, positive shifts. We conclude that careership theory was useful for analysing and understanding the careers of the young people concerned. However, distinguishing between 'routines' and 'turning points' became especially difficult when studying lives of these young people hemmed in by sparser resources, fewer choices and less stable career trajectories than their peers.
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- Olofsson, Jonas, et al.
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Unga möter ökade sociala risker - en bakgrund om ungdomsarbetslöshet och utanförskap
- 2013
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Ingår i: Socialmedicinsk Tidskrift. - 0037-833X. ; 90:5, s. 733-743
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Det mesta talar för att ungas övergångs- och etableringsmönster har förändrats och blivit mer individualiserade och utdragna. Ungas övergångar påverkas av förlängda utbildningsperioder, men också av förändringar i arbetslivet med ökad konkurrens på arbetsmarknaden, tilltagande effektivitetskrav, tidsbegränsade jobb och mer deltidsarbetande. Unga med svagast resurser har svårast att hantera utmaningarna. De etablerade välfärdspolitiska systemen tycks illa utformade för att möta de sociala risker som unga och unga vuxna ställs inför. Den aktiveringspolitiska strategin med ökade krav på den enskilde tycks också ha nått vägs ände. Mer av sociala investeringsstrategier med fokus på flexibla utbildningsinsatser nära kopplade till arbetslivet förespråkas både i Sverige och i EU-sammanhang.
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