From School to Work

• 1. The institutional embededness of the stratification process: a comparative study of qualifications and occupations in thirteen countries ; 2. The transition from school to work in Australia ; 3. Education and occupation in Britain ; 4. From education to first job: the French case ; 6. Investment in education: educational qualifications and class of entry in the Republic of Ireland ; 7. The transition from school to work in Israel ; 8. Occupational returns to education in contemporary Italy ; 9. Educational credentials and labour market entry outcomes in Japan ; 10. From high school and college to work in Japan - meritocracy through institutional and semi-institutional linkages ; 11. Education and early occupation in the Netherlands around 1990: categorical and continous scales and the details of a relationship ; 12. Allocation processes in the Swedish labour market ; 13. The transition from school to work in Switzerland: do characteristics of the educational system and class barriers matter? ; 14. The transition from school to work in Taiwan ; 15. The early returns: the transition from school to work in the United States

excellent overviews of trends and isues in the countries concerned ... Mulle and Shavit have taken great pains to ensure the comparability of the data and the analyses ... They have come closer to a cross-nationally comparable analysis of the transition from school to work than any previous study based on so many countries. ... Shavit and Muller have achieved an important milestone in research on cross-national differences in school-to-work transitions.