The school-to-work transitions of second-generation youth in France Online publication date: Fri, 24-Jul-2015
by Sorana Toma
International Journal of Migration and Border Studies (IJMBS), Vol. 1, No. 4, 2015
Abstract: Research on the socio-economic outcomes of children of immigrants (second-generation) in the European context is relatively recent, especially in France. Most scholarship focuses on the educational difficulties experienced by second-generation youth, while their labour market outcomes have been less investigated and tend to rely only on cross-sectional evidence. Using a cohort study of school-leavers that records a retrospective calendar of the respondents' monthly labour force situation, this paper investigates the dynamic and longitudinal aspects of early labour market transitions using event-history models. Findings show that youth with North African and, to a lesser extent, Turkish and Sub-Saharan background, experience longer, more 'chaotic' transitions to work, with constant balancing in and out of employment and a highly problematic access to permanent, full-time jobs. Moreover, the relative explaining power of several mechanisms in the observed ethnic disparities is tested, such as differences in educational attainment, social background and context of unemployment.
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