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Transition from Secondary School to Work in St. Vincent

Transition from Secondary School to Work in St. Vincent. Christel Vermeersch. Goals of the paper/ will discuss. How do secondary school graduates transition to the labor market? Post secondary occupation, job search strategies, sectors of employment Skills

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Transition from Secondary School to Work in St. Vincent

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  1. Transition from Secondary School to Workin St. Vincent Christel Vermeersch

  2. Goals of the paper/ will discuss • How do secondary school graduates transition to the labor market? • Post secondary occupation, job search strategies, sectors of employment • Skills • IT skills, awareness of skills needed, communication with employers about skills • Training • Who receives on-the-job training? • Do better CXC qualifications associated with better labor market outcomes

  3. Survey • Surveyed 400 Vincentian graduates from the 2002 CSEC exam • Field work in February 2006 • Very high response rates • 85% in person, 13% proxy • Survey content • Labor market participation, economic activities since graduation, formal training, on the job training, skills, parental education, perceptions of skills

  4. Transition path from secondary to labor market

  5. Current job search and employment status among graduates Note: 4 percent of graduates had permanently migrated

  6. Sectors of job search by graduates

  7. Sources of vacancy information for succesful job applications

  8. IT Skills

  9. Graduates’ awareness of lack of skills

  10. Communication between employers and young people on skills:Time since the graduate talked to any employer about her skills

  11. Communication with employers on skills • Only 35.6 percent of respondents reported having ever talked to an employer about their skills. • Only 15 % of those who did, had talked to an employer about specific skills which they needed to update.

  12. Who receives/gets job-related training

  13. Are secondary qualifications valued in the labor market? • Number of CXC passes • Score in CXC math and English ? • Number of months till find first job • Percentage of time spent looking for a job • Average wage

  14. Are secondary qualifications valued in the labor market? Results among graduates who did not undertake further studies • Number of months till find first job: no difference by CSEC results • Percentage of time spent looking for a job: no difference by CSEC results • Average wage: higher for higher CSEC Math qualification ($80 per level), other CSEC results don’t matter (controlling for gender, mother’s education, age)

  15. Conclusions • Skills • Little interaction between graduates and employers on skills • Lack of knowledge on valued skills among graduates • Over-estimation of own IT skills • 19% of graduates received on-the-job/job-related training at least once • 13% among graduates who went straight to labor market • Relevance of CSEC • Only Math scores are associated with higher earnings

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