Drawing on nationally representative data collected for two age cohorts in the UK, this paper
a) assesses the effect of multiple independent socioeconomic risk factors in shaping the …

This paper studies the school to work transition in the UK with the aim of achieving a richer
understanding of individuals' trajectories in the five years after reaching school leaving age …

There is a growing interest among researchers in the impact of locality on young people who
are inactive and not engaged in education, employment or training (NEETs). Previous …

This paper uses a dynamic latent factor model to investigate the determinants of not in
education, employment or training (NEET) status among adolescents in the United Kingdom …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess the role of local labour market conditions
and pupil educational attainment as primary determinants of the post-compulsory schooling …

In the context of a difficult 2011 labour market, this report examines the early educational
and labour market transitions made by young people, age 16 to 17 through to age 18 to 19 …

Executive summary The aim of this report is to provide evidence on the impact of local
labour market conditions in general–and the national minimum wage (NMW) in particular …

In the UK there has historically been a clear demarcation between the academic and
vocational routes through education post-16. Generally vocational study is taken either on a …

The F urther E ducation (FE) sector has been the C inderella of E nglish education, attracting
less research, despite the large number of students who attend FE colleges. We ask whether …

The national minimum wage in the UK took effect from 1 April 1999. From the beginning it
has treated workers under the age of 22 years as a separate group, now paying them a …