Young people's health and well-being during the school-to-work transition: a prospective cohort study comparing post-secondary pathways.

ABSTRACT:

Background

At the end of secondary education, young people can either start vocational training, enter university, directly transition to employment or become unemployed. Research assumes that post-secondary pathways have immediate and/or long-term impacts on health and well-being, but empirical investigations on this are scarce and restricted to few countries. Therefore, this study traced the development of health and well-being throughout the highly institutionalised school-to-work transition (STWT) in Germany.

Methods

We used longitudinal data of the National Educational Panel Study (NEPS), a representative sample of 11,098 school-leavers (50.5% girls) repeatedly interviewed between 2011 and 2020. We estimated the effect of post-secondary transitions on self-rated health

SUBMITTER: Reuter M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9511745 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature