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Youth Inequalities and Their Implications for Transitions to Adulthood Patterns

RC28 Social Stratification (host committee)

Language: English

 

Over the past decades, family structures and gender roles have diversified, income and educations inequalities by gender and race changed in different directions and labour market experienced intense transformations. What the implications for transitions to adulthood? The session proposal is to discuss theoretical and empirical researches about the young people in context of social and economical inequalities and its implications for transitions to adulthood. Works examining gender differences in school-to-work transitions, school dropouts, labor market entry, different education returns, motherhood and fatherhood, are all invite.