Abstract

PARENTE, Cristina et al. The effects of education on patterns of youth integration into the labour market in Portugal. Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas [online]. 2011, n.65, pp.69-93. ISSN 0873-6529.

Throughout the development of capitalist societies, there has been a steady increase in the importance attributed to education/training in the process of employability: it has asserted itself as a key variable in the functioning of the labour markets. In the light of an analysis of the data in the 2007 Personnel Charts, the aim of this article is to understand to what extent educational levels still represent a variable that explains the different types of employment relationships among young people between 15 and 24 years of age. The relevant and innovative aspects of this study are, firstly, a multiple correspondence analysis of the unpublished secondary information and, secondly, the findings that new patterns of integration into the labour market have emerged, with distinctive characteristics, though they do not call into question the positive association between educational certificates and the employment relationship.

Keywords : patterns of labour market integration; multiple correspondence analysis; education; labour market.

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