Youth Transition and Social Welfare

This book is based on a five-year joint project involving a comparative study of youth transitions and social policy/security in Japan and Europe. It uses a comparative model embedded in insights from previous research on youth transition, and builds on comparative country case studies from Japan, the United Kingdom, Germany, Norway, and Switzerland. Starting from the increasingly problematic youth transitions in Japan, this book focuses on young people's transitions to adulthood in Japan and four European countries. This book examines how country-specific institutions and cultural norms create and resolve transition risks in the respective countries, taking into consideration aspects of social policy/security.

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Introduction young peoples risks in transitioning to adulthood. - Methodology and research design. - Uncertain futures among those in precarious employment in japan. - Prolonged transitions into adulthood in Germany. - Youth transitions in switzerland the relevance of gendered life courses in the early 21st century. - Young adults transitions to adulthood in the united kingdom protracted yet highly diversified pathways. - Youth transition pathways in norway how education work and gender matter. - A peripheral sphere of the welfare system comparative analysis of social security for young people. - How context matters transition patterns in a country comparative perspective. - Conclusion tackling the risks of young peoples transitions to adulthood.