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Abstract
Understanding school‐to‐work transitions in former communist countries taxes Western typologies and theories because even basic categories such as employment, self‐employment and unemployment can have rather different, and more varied, meanings in the East. This article discusses these differences, and how educational and occupational divisions became disorganised in all the former communist countries during the initial stages of their transformation into market economies with expanding private sectors. A typology of post‐communist school‐to‐work transitions is then proposed‐‐via Westernised private sector employment, public sector employment, self‐employment, partial jobs, and unemployment. It is argued that this typology can describe accurately the situations confronting school‐leavers in all specific post‐communist countries, make meaningful comparisons between them, and not only draw contrasts but also indicate the ways in which Western and post‐communist transition systems may converge as a result of changes on both sides.
[1]The research on which this article is based has been supported by the ESRC (L309-25-3054), INTAS (93-2693), ACE-PHARE (P95-2141R), ACE-TACIS (T94-1034R) and the UK Overseas Development Association (R6665).
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[1]The research on which this article is based has been supported by the ESRC (L309-25-3054), INTAS (93-2693), ACE-PHARE (P95-2141R), ACE-TACIS (T94-1034R) and the UK Overseas Development Association (R6665).