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David Reimer is a researcher at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). He is currently working in a research project on the consequences of the expansion and the differentiation of tertiary education for social inequality, funded by the German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). His main research interests include the sociology of education and the labour market – particularly with respect to higher education. Stephanie Steinmetz is a researcher at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES). She is currently working on her PhD on the issue of occupational sex segregation in Europe. Her main research interests include social stratification, gender inequalities, and comparative labour market research. The objective of this paper is to investigate the relationship between gender differentiation in tertiary education and labour market hazards. We analyze how differences between male and female tertiary graduates in the chosen degree level and field of study affect the likelihood to be unemployed or obtain a low status job. In order to learn about the role of institutional context, we compare Germany and Spain, two countries that differ with respect

Dr. Frank Kalter is “wissenschaftlicher Assistant ” at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Mannheim. His research interests include residential mobility, migration and ethnic relations, sociology of the family, rational choice theory and methods. Currently, he is conducting several research projects on immigrants ’ structural assimilation at the Mannheim Centre of European Social Research (MZES). Nadia Granato is a researcher at the Microdata Department of the Centre for Survey Research and Methodology (ZUMA) in Mannheim. Here, one of her tasks is to document and edit anonymized microdata from the Federal Statistic Office and to provide assistance to researchers analyzing those The persistence of ethnic inequality in the German labor market, i.e. the fact that the ‚classical labor migrants ‘ and their descendants are still occupying lower positions, has been shown in many studies. However, theoretical discussions of the mechanisms through which ethnic inequality gains persistence and empirical testing of those mechanisms have been mostly neglected. In this contribution two basic theoretical arguments are considered: differences in educational attainment and labor market discrimination. Using data from the microcensus 1993 and 1997 our findings show that ethnic

is currently involved in the European research network “A Comparative Analysis of Transitions from Education to Work in Europe ” (CATEWE), funded under the TSER programme of the European The nature of the linkage of education and training systems to the labour market is often claimed to crucially affect labour market integration in modern economies. More specifically, most current comparative research assumes a more strongly qualification-based allocation in training systems allowing for early occupational specialization as compared to more experience-based allocation mechanisms where such arrangements are absent. Building on this basic idea, the paper develops a set of institutional predictions about consequences for patterns of labour market entry in these systems. This framework is then applied in exploratory analyses for twelve member states of the European Union. From these, three distinct patterns of early labour market experiences empirically emerge: first, a non-experience based pattern for those continental European countries with extensive vocational training systems, second, a strongly experience-based allocation pattern in those Northern European countries lacking such systems, and, finally, a particular and theoretically unexpected pattern among the group of Southern European countries. While the first contrast appears broadly

Dr. Anna Kim is research fellow at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research(MZES), University of Mannheim. She is currently involved in a research project on “’Educational Expansion and Social Reproduction in Europe ” funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Her main research interest include social network analysis, sociology of the family and comparative analysis of social inequality. Dr. Karin Kurz is assistant professor (wissenschaftliche Assistentin) at the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany. She is currently working in the GLOBALIFE project (Life Courses in the Globalization Process) on issues of labour market inequalities and family formation. She is also During the last decades most industrialised countries have experienced a massive educational expansion. Corresponding to this development there has been an increase of female employment which is, however, to a large extent part-time. At the same time, the attempts of firms to achieve more employment flexibility – facilitated by government intervention to deregulate the labour market- has contributed to the growth of precarious jobs, such as, fixed-term, (certain types of) part-time jobs and self-employment. This has been true in particular for the United Kingdom.

(ROA), Maastricht University. He is project manager of a large-scale annual survey among school-leavers from secondary education (the RUBS survey). His main research interests include social stratification and school-to-work transitions. The current paper draws on work carried out as part of the project ‘Evaluation and Analyses of the LFS 2000 Ad-hoc-module on Transitions from School to Work’, co-funded by Eurostat. Author acknowledgements

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