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EXCEPT project calendar
09.01.2018The EXCEPT Polish team has developed a 2018 calendar promoting EXCEPT project! The calendars were sent to stakeholders including policy makers, representatives from key employment services institutions, Warsaw University, schools in different cities of Poland, and members of the general public.
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EXCEPT researchers contributed to the book on European Youth Labour Markets
08.01.2018Magdalena Rokicka, Marge Unt, Kadri Täht and Olena Nizalova wrote a chapter titled “Youth Labour Market in Central and Eastern Europe”. The chapter provides an insight into youth labour market trajectories specific to countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE).
The first part describes the role of institutions in labour market transitions provi...
Read more EXCEPT published policy brief №4 Socio-economic consequences of insecure labour market positions
03.01.2018EXCEPT Policy Brief№4 focused on the socio-economic consequences of unemployment and temporary employment. The EXCEPT research looked at short-, medium- and long-term perspectives. Different methodologies used in the research included Europe-wide social surveys, longitudinal surveys, desk research on public pension systems and expert interviews with scientific experts and business professionals.
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Read more EXCEPT Policy Brief №3 is out!
03.01.2018We are pleased to announce that EXCEPT Policy Brief №3 Autonomy is now available on the website
It is devoted to EXCEPT findings regarding the association between labour market disadvantages and autonomy for young people across EU-28 and Ukraine.
The situation was compared across countries and over time. This enabled the EXCEPT team to describe the moderating role of the:
economic...
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EXCEPT at TedTalks in Italy
14.12.2017In October, Sonia Bertolini, Valentina Moiso and Rosy Musumeci from the Italian team presented EXCEPT findings during TedTalks organized by SISEC (the Italian Society of Economic Sociology) on occasion of the ‘Week of Sociology’. The presentation was based on the qualitative interviews with youth. The event took place at the theatre Espace of Turin and was video recorded.
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EXCEPT event in Italy
05.12.2017During Italian ‘Week of Sociology’, Sonia Bertolini, Antonella Meo and Valentina Moiso from the Italian team organized an event titled “Become adult, dreams and reality: Youth and labour market in Europe” The event included a photo exhibition of the Except project "YouthVision: Becoming adult today" and the reading (performed by actress) of some excerpts from inte...
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EXCEPT at the 10th ESPAnet Italia Conference
04.12.2017Sonia Bertolini, Antonella Meo and Valentina Moiso from Italian team participated in the 10th ESPAnet Italia Conference as keynote speakers of the session "Efficiency and inefficiency of the job market: job matching and job precarity ". They presented a paper with the title: "Job precarity and autonomy of young people".
ESPAnet Italia (national association of ESPAnet Eu...
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"YouthVision" photo exhibition in Warsaw
29.11.2017Photos from the EXCEPT photo competition "YouthVision: Becoming adult today" were presented to young people and students at the Faculty of Education in Warsaw University, Poland. Participants of the competition presented their view on entering adulthood: their expectations, new emotions, fears and challenges. The exhibition will run until 8th December.
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EXCEPT project results on the future perspective of youth in Europe presented in Estonia
28.11.2017On 28th of November, EXCEPT project coordinator Marge Unt gave a presentation titled "The open labour market and the closed pension systems from the perspective of youth" at the seminar of Centre of Excellence in Interdisciplinary Life course Studies at Tallinn University. The presentation centred on the long-term socio-economic consequences of labour market insecurity, and looked at bot...
Read more EXCEPT at EU-LFS workshop in Mannheim
27.11.2017EXCEPT Project Co-Coordinator Michael Gebel gave a talk on "The research perspective on the EU-LFS: Comparative research on youth labour markets?" at the „Working with European Union Labour Force Survey (EU-LFS)“ workshop. This workshop was organised by the German Microdata Lab of the Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS) and the Consortium of European Social Scie...
Read more EXCEPT Working Paper No. 16
24.11.2017EXCEPT Working Paper No. 16 “Long-term socio-economic consequences of insecure labour market positions” is now available online!
The report focuses on the socio-economic consequences of unemployment and atypical employment for the economic situation of youth in Europe in the long-term, i.e. when leaving the labour market and transitioning into retirement. The report provides:...
Read more EXCEPT Working Paper No. 15 is now available
22.11.2017The impact of the institutional setting and policies on the economic situation of youth in insecure labour market positions in EU-28 & Ukraine
The aim of the paper is to study the moderating effect of country institutional context – labour market institutions and policies – of the relationship between economic hardship and labour market status among young adults in Europe.
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EXCEPT results presented at a conference in Tallinn University
21.11.2017Eve-Liis Roosmaa from Tallinn University presented the results of EXCEPT project at a conference dedicated to the 25th anniversary of teaching sociology in Tallinn. The conference began with presentations on the most recent research and EXCEPT was one of the projects to be introduced. The presentation by Eve-Liis Roosmaa focused on the educational trajectories of the young people interviewed and t...
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Check new EXCEPT video page!
20.11.2017We are happy to invite you to our new page where we gathered EXCEPT project’s videos and appearances on TV. Now you can easily access them at http://www.except-project.eu/videos-and-tv/.
On videos youth share their thoughts and feelings around unemployment, job-seeking and becoming an adult, young people experiencing labour market insecurity tell their stories. Other videos include ...
Read more EXCEPT identified as a best practice example
13.11.2017Directorate General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD) of European Commission published on its website EXCEPT project findings. The project is considered to be a success story and has been highlighted as good practice.
http://ec.europa.eu/research/infocentre/article_en.cfm?artid=46361
DG RTD supports research and innovation through European Framework Programmes (FPs). Through the successor...
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