Examining Complexities in the Education-Work Relationship in Youth Transitions in Argentina
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Examining Complexities in the Education-Work Relationship in Youth Transitions in Argentina Agustina Corica 1,2
& Analía
Otero 1,3
Received: 3 April 2020 / Revised: 4 October 2020 / Accepted: 6 October 2020 / Published online: 26 November 2020 # Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Abstract The expansion in secondary and tertiary education participation and the persistent precarity of the labour market inform current debates on young people transitions in Argentina. Against this backdrop, this article examines the post-secondary school education and labour choices and experiences of a group of young people in the city and province of Buenos Aires. We draw on data from a mixed-methods longitudinal research study to analyse how young people from different socioeconomic backgrounds build their biographies in the first 5 years after leaving secondary school. This includes examining the variegated opportunities for participants of different socioeconomic status to draw from personal material and emotional resources. This socioeconomic background also accounts for the different expectations that young people and their parents have about tertiary education and labour pathways. In other words, parental and other types of support matter in the choices and opportunities of young people’s education and labour pathways. Ultimately, the analysis from our longitudinal project confirms the increasing complexity of the relationship between education and work in contemporary youth transitions. Keywords Education and work . Young people . Transitions
* Agustina Corica [email protected] Analía Otero [email protected]
1
National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and Youth Research Programme, Latin American School of Social Sciences, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2
National Pedagogical University (UNIPE), City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
3
Social Research Institute of Latin America (IICSAL), City of Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Journal of Applied Youth Studies (2020) 3:311–329
Introduction The expansion of education participation and the difficulties for young people to enter the labour market are two relevant issues in contemporary research on youth transitions and inequalities. Insights provided by research on youth transitions show the importance of structural conditions and subjective aspects in the construction of the different pathways. It has become a truism that youth transitions in Western societies have become fragmented, nonlinear and complex compared to previous generations (Bendit and Miranda 2016; Roberts 2020). Against this background, we draw on a recent research on school-to-work transitions of Argentinian young people who graduated from secondary school (2011 cohort) in the city and province of Buenos Aires to analyse their transitions during their first 5 years after completing compulsory education.1 We are guided in this study by questions such as: which are the main activities in the first years after graduating? What are the priorities of the young people included in our research?
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