Youth Transition from School to Work in Spain

Gérard Lassibille (), Isabel Aguilar Ramos, María Lucía Navarro Gómez and Carolina de La O Sanchez
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Gérard Lassibille: IREDU - Institut de recherche sur l'éducation : Sociologie et Economie de l'Education - UB - Université de Bourgogne, CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Isabel Aguilar Ramos: Universidad de Málaga [Málaga] = University of Málaga [Málaga]
María Lucía Navarro Gómez: Universidad de Málaga [Málaga] = University of Málaga [Málaga]
Carolina de La O Sanchez: Universidad de Málaga [Málaga] = University of Málaga [Málaga]

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Abstract: Using a data set drawn from the Encuesta Socio-Demográfica conducted by the Instituto Nacional de Estadística in 1991, we analyze the labor market entrance of Spanish school leavers and the match between education and work at the early stages of working life. The empirical evidence shows that human capital exerts a strong influence on the duration of unemployment. With regard to the job match between education and work we find that young workers are more likely to be underutilized compared to their adult co-workers. Regression results indicate that people with higher education have, all else being equal, a lower probability of being overeducated and a shorter lenght of unemployment. They also show the poor performance of upper secondary education ; a key problem in the Spanish educational system.

Keywords: Human capital; Youth labor market; Over- and underschooling; Spain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-04
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Published in Economics of Education Review, 2001, 20 (2), pp.139-149

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