Does it pay off to specialize? The interplay between educational specificity, level and cyclical sensitivity

Lucille Mattijssen; Dimitris Pavlopoulos; Wendy Smits

doi:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102782

Does it pay off to specialize? The interplay between educational specificity, level and cyclical sensitivity

Lucille Mattijssen^*
, Dimitris Pavlopoulos
, Wendy Smits

^*Corresponding author for this work

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This paper investigates how the specificity of the field of study is related to the quality of school-to-work transitions, and whether this relation is moderated by the level of education and the cyclical sensitivity of the field of study. We apply a processual approach and produce a typology of school-to-work transitions based on labor market position and income. This is done with multichannel sequence analysis on register data on school-leavers in the Netherland for the 2009–2010 cohort (N = 182,057). The results confirm that specificity is positively related to the quality of school-to-work transitions in terms of employment and income security. This however mostly holds for the highest levels of upper-secondary vocational education (ISCED 354), and much less for the lower levels of upper-secondary vocational education and tertiary education. In contrast to our expectations, specificity was more often related to positive career outcomes for cyclically sensitive fields of study.

Original language	English
Article number	102782
Pages (from-to)	1-26
Number of pages	26
Journal	Social Science Research
Volume	109
Early online date	26 Aug 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssresearch.2022.102782
Publication status	Published - Jan 2023

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This research is part of the research programme ‘Non-standard employment: Prospect or precarity?’ (project number 406.16.541 ), which is financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

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This research is part of the research programme ‘Non-standard employment: Prospect or precarity?’ (project number 406.16.541 ), which is financed by the Dutch Research Council (NWO).

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SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth

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Educational specificity
Multichannel sequence analysis
Non-standard employment
School-to-work transition

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Does it pay off to specialize? The interplay between educational specificity, level and cyclical sensitivity

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