Source of funding: National Science Centre, Poland
Funding Scheme: HARMONIA 10
Project ID number: 2018/30/M/HS4/00744
Start date: 02.09.2019
Finish date: 01.09.2021
Amount of funding: 333 620 zł
General description:
School-to-work transition (SWT) can be defined as a period lasting from few months to few years
between graduating from formal education and the beginning of stable employment. This period
is characterized by high labour market and employment mobility. During the SWT phase we
frequently change jobs, lose jobs, get promotions. We also take important life decisions, about
leaving the family house, moving abroad, starting own family. The smoothness of the SWT
influences our entire life. We can easily imagine that the problems with finding a decent job at
the beginning of the professional career will have negative consequences for our entire
professional life.
From this reason scientists carefully investigate the conditions of SWT since the
knowledge how to improve the labour market entry process will help to avoid future problems. In
this research we deal with few aspects of SWT. Firstly, we try to design new measures of SWT
allowing to capture its dynamics and complexity. Secondly, we focus on some consequences of
early job insecurity, e.g. how the problems with employment influence transitions into
parenthood or how the employers, reading job applications, perceive the frequent job changes of
candidates. Finally, we try to understand what models of SWT transition represent post-socialist
countries.