| title: | IMPACT OF INSTITUTIONS ON WORK CAREERS: ESTONIAN PECULIARITY IN THE BACKDROP OF OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES |
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| reg no: | ETF6892 |
| project type: | Estonian Science Foundation research grant |
| subject: |
5.3. Sociology |
| status: | accepted |
| institution: | Tallinna Ülikooli Rahvusvaheliste ja Sotsiaaluuringute Instituut |
| head of project: | Ellu Saar |
| duration: | 01.01.2006 - 31.12.2009 |
| description: | The aim of the project is to analyze the impact of institutions on the work career in Estonia in the backdrop of other European countries. In a first step the project attempts to identify the institutional context of work career. This is accomplished by employing an evolutionary concept of social structural change and the use of time-series data. After construction of comparable macro-level indicators, researchers will assess the degree that institutional changes result in convergence or divergence within work career patterns in Estonia compared with other European countries. The starting point for the formulation of the hypotheses in the project is based on the assumption that different labour market institutions and educational systems have an impact on the labour market entry process and work career. The comparison between the educational systems as well as labour market institutions of Estonia and other European countries will help us to formulate hypotheses about labour market entry and work career process in Estonia using the classification results from previous studies. In a second step, we plan to study the process of youth's transition from school to work, and in a third step, job transitions during the life course. Representative individual-level panel and life course data in Estonia and in other European countries will be combined with macro-level transnational indicators to compare, trace and test the mechanisms through which they contribute to social inequality in Estonia compared with other European countries. Researchers participating in the project have already acquired and would continue to include micro (European Labour Force Survey 2004; Estonian Labour Force Surveys 1995, 1997-2005; Estonian Social Survey 2004) and macro data sets (OECD; ILO; EUROSTAT; European Commission, Eurydice) from various organizations. Micro data are in the form of panel, repeated cross-sectional, and retrospective cross-national individual level data. The project will be a part from a international comparative European Science Foundation a la carte programme "TransEuropa Research Network: Transnationalisation and Changing Life Course Inequality in Europe. The programme leader is Prof. H.-P. Blossfeld (Bamberg University, Germany). |
| project group | ||||
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| no | name | institution | position | |
| 1. | Jelena Helemäe | |||
| 2. | Margarita Kazjulja | |||
| 3. | Ellu Saar | Tallinna Ülikooli Rahvusvaheliste ja Sotsiaaluuringute Instituut | ||
| 4. | Kadri Täht | |||
| 5. | Marge Unt | |||
| 6. | Rein Vöörmann | |||