Back Home: Young Women’s Transition from School to Inactivity

Having discussed the challenges young women face in the education system in chapters 5 and 6, we investigate young women’s chances of labor market integration. In a standard life course sequence, the transition from school to work represents the next central life course event young women face on their way to adulthood. Previous research has shown that decisions made at this stage of the life course set the track for the future labor market career and patterns of family formation (Blossfeld et al., 2005).