Cohort: SOMET 42

Topic of the thesis: School-to-work transitions of second-generation immigrants and the impacts of neighbourhoods: evidence from the United Kingdom, Germany and Sweden

Abstract: The school-to-work transition is a crucial period for one’s long-term success in the labour market and life chances, and it is becoming increasingly complex and prolonged. For second-generation immigrants, this transition entails mechanisms of intergenerational integration.  The proposed project aims to analyse the school-to-work transition, defined as the first five years after obtaining the highest degree or qualification, among second-generation immigrants in the UK, Sweden, and Germany. It investigates whether experiencing a bad start, defined as being unemployed, in NEET, and being employed on temporary contracts in the school-to-work transition, has scarring effects on earnings, unemployment, and contract type ten years later.  Most importantly, it investigates heterogeneity across ethnic minorities and whether neighbourhoods’ ethnic segregation and economic deprivation moderate these scarring effects.  The project conducts three separate analyses for each country using three panel studies: UKHLS dataset for the UK, SOEP for Germany, and Swedish register data for Sweden.

Research interests: Social inequalities; Transition to adulthood; Urban inequalities; Social stratification; Labour Studies; Sociology of Education; Ethnic inequalities; Life-Course; Quantitative Methods; Computational Sociology; Comparative Sociology; Welfare and Mobility regimes.

Graduated from: Università degli Studi di Milano 

Degrees obtained: BA (Hons) at University of Warwick; MA at University of Trento; MA at London School of Economics and Political Science

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