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The transition from adolescence to adulthood in Western societies is marked by many changes. Young people leave school, enter the labor force, move out of the parental home, marry, and establish their own families of procreation. These changes are often interdependent; young people simultaneously follow “interlocking careers” [12]. A change in one domain often affects the likelihood of a change in another domain. The focus of this chapter, however, is limited to the part of the adolescence-to-adulthood transition involving leaving school and entering the labor force.
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Kerckhoff, A.C. (2003). From Student to Worker. In: Mortimer, J.T., Shanahan, M.J. (eds) Handbook of the Life Course. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-306-48247-2_12
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