Program

TIY2015 Program

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Venue: Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University, Jostova 10, Brno 

Wednesday, September 2, 2015 

14:00 - (unlimited) Check-in at the hotel Continental

19:00 - 20:30 Welcome event and registration (Faculty of Social Studies, 3rd floor, Auditorium)

Thursday, September 3, 2015 (Faculty of Social Studies, 3rd floor, room U32)

9:30 - 10:30 Welcome and keynote speech

• van der Velden, Rolf: "Skills, skill use and earnings: A new theoretical perspective"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break, registration

11:00 - 12:30 SESSION 1: Education, Income, and Social Class.

Session chair: Maarten Wolbers

• Verhofstadt, Elsy, Dieter Verhaest, Stijn Baert, and Luc Van Ootegem: "Lifelong scarring? On the long-run impact of leaving education in a bad economic situation"

• Drange, Ida and Håvard Helland: "What is the consequence of occupational closure for ethnic minorities’ earnings?"

• Iannelli, Cristina, Emer Smyth, and Markus Klein: "Family background, curriculum choice and school-to-work transitions among upper-secondary school-leavers in Scotland and Ireland"

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 - 15:00 SESSION 2: Vocational Education.

Session chair: Hans Dietrich

• Menze, Laura: "Stability or change after apprenticeship training? The role of occupational characteristics for the process of labour market entry"

• Dumhs, Lisa and Janneke Plantenga: "Side-Jobs and Pocket Money: The Impact of Financial Resources on Employment Status and Employment Quality of Dutch VET-graduates"

• Protsch, Paula: "Going across Europe for Apprenticeships? A Vignette Study on Employers’ Hiring Preferences"

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break 

15:30 – 16:30 SESSION 3: NEETs and Dropout.

Session chair: Christian Brzinsky-Fay

• Guégnard, Christine, Jean-François Giret, Olivier Joseph, and Jake Murdoch: "Why are French youths 'trapped' in a NEET position? A segmentation approach"

• Dietrich, Hans: "Are the inactive the lazy counterpart of the unemployed? - An empirical test of NEET"

Friday, September 4, 2015 (Faculty of Social Studies, 3rd floor, room U32)

9:00 - 10:30 SESSION 4: Employment Security.

Session chair: Cristina Iannelli

• Couprie, Hélène and Xavier Joutard: "Part-time work at the start of the career - Atypical employment and prospects of the youth on the labour market in a crisis context"

• Passaretta, Giampiero and Maarten H. J. Wolbers: "Temporary employment at labour market entry in Europe: labour market dualism, transitions to secure employment, and upward mobility"

• Weißmann, Markus: "Temporary employment and dynamics of labour market entry in European comparison: The role of educational systems and educational degrees"

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00 - 12:30 SESSION 5: Role of Resources.

Session chair: Dieter Verhaest

• Fontainha, Elsa and Carolina Carvalho: “Human Capital Investment versus Financial Investment and Great Recession in US: A panel study based on Transition into Adulthood PSID Supplements"

• Kauppinen, Timo M., S. Karvonen, and L. Kestilä: "Parental social disadvantage as a determinant of welfare dependency among young adults before and after the Great Recession"

• Contini, Dalit, Federica Cugnata, and Andrea Scagni: "Social selection in higher education. Enrolment, dropout and timely degree attainment in Italy"

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch break

13:30 - 15:00 SESSION 6: Higher Education.

Session chair: Martin Kreidl

• Hovdhaugen, Elisabeth and Kari Vea Salvanes: "Delayed entrance to higher education: increased motivation for studies or just as slow?"

• Glorieux, Ignace, Ilse Laurijssen, and  Magits, Jeroen: "Opportunity or threshold: the effect of the two-cycle Bologna structure on social inequalities in the tertiary educational system of Flanders"

• Brzinsky-Fay, Christian and Heike Solga: "Compressed, postponed, or disadvantaged? School-to-work-transition patterns and their impact on early occupational attainment in West Germany"

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 - 16:00 SESSION 7: in honour of David Raffe.

Session chair: Walter van Trier

• Howieson, Cathy: "An unequalled contribution: The work of David Raffe", via video link from Edinburgh

16:00 - 17:00 SESSION 8: Comparisons within and cross Countries.

Session chair: Paula Protsch

• Smyth, Emer and Stephanie Steinmetz: "The gender gap in unemployment: cross-national differences before and after the recession"

• Lorentzen, Thomas, Olof Bäckman, Timo Kauppinen, and Ilari Ilmakunnas: “Pathways to adulthood: Sequences in the school-to-work transition in Finland, Norway and Sweden"

19:30 Conference dinner, Bohéma, Rooseveltova 7, 602 00 Brno 

Saturday, September 5, 2015 (Faculty of Social Studies, 3rd floor, room U32)

10:00 - 11:30 SESSION 9: Educational qualifications - competition and (mis)match.

Session chair: Emer Smyth

• Verhaest, Dieter and Stijn Baert: "Job competition between bachelor and master graduates: evidence from a field experiment"

• Sellami, Sana, Dieter Verhaest, and Walter Van Trier: "How To Measure Field-Of-Study Mismatch? A Comparative Review and Analysis of the Different Methods"

• McGuinness, Seamus, Adele Whelan, and Adele Bergin: "Recruitment methods and educational provision effects on graduate over-education and over-skilling"

11:30 – 12:00 WORKSHOP SUMMARY AND FAREWELL

12:00-13:00 Lunch

17:30 - 19:30 Social event, UNESCO World Heritage Site Villa Tugendhat - guided tour of house and garden

Sunday, September 6, 2015

morning - 12:00 Check-out

Time slot assigned to one presentation is 30 minutes. The presentation should take maximum 20 minutes leaving 10 to 15 minutes for discussion.