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This article analyzes the intergenerational correlation of employment between young women (at about 30 years of age) and their mothers (when their daughters were about 14 years old), using 2011 European Union Survey on Income and Living Conditions data. It examines the extent to which this correlation varies across 19 European countries and is associated with the socioeconomic context at the national level. Having grown up with a working mother is associated with a sizeable increase in the daughters' employment probability in almost all countries, with greater effect for women with children. For this group, the intergenerational correlation is smaller in countries where the policy context is less favorable to maternal employment. It is crucial to promote gender equality, challenging individuals' gender stereotypes through education and in society at large, and create conditions that allow young women's preferences for work to be realized, enhancing policies that favor a balanced sharing of unpaid work.

AbstractThe shift of policy focus from job security to employment security calls for a more dynamic measurement of young people's labour market performance. This article uses data on monthly employment status trajectories and job duration to investigate young Europeans' employment security around five years after they finished education. The authors show that almost 40 per cent of "job‐insecure" individuals actually enjoy employment security – i.e. they are able to re‐enter paid employment rapidly after losing their job. The article highlights the need for policy measures to enhance employment security, and the positive role that stricter temporary employment protection, and ALMP expenditure, could play.

RésuméConsidérant qu'aujourd'hui la sécurité des parcours professionnels importe plus que la stabilité dans le poste, les auteures décident d'analyser la situation des jeunes Européens sur le marché du travail cinq ans après la fin de leurs études en se fondant sur les changements de statut d'activité mensuels et sur la durée d'emploi effective. Elles montrent que près de 40 pour cent des jeunes dits «précaires» connaissent en réalité une «sécurité de l'emploi» puisqu'ils ne restent jamais très longtemps au chômage. Elles préconisent en conséquence un durcissement de la législation protectrice des travailleurs temporaires et un renforcement des politiques actives du marché du travail.

ResumenEl interés político en la seguridad del empleo ya no se centra en la estabilidad laboral, sino en la empleabilidad, lo cual exige cambios en el modo de evaluar el desempeño de los jóvenes en el mercado de trabajo. Con datos sobre la evolución mensual de la situación laboral y sobre la duración real del empleo, se investigan ambos parámetros en jóvenes europeos unos cinco años después de finalizar sus estudios. El 40 por ciento sufre inestabilidad laboral pero su nivel de empleabilidad les permite encontrar rápidamente un empleo en caso de perderlo. Las autoras defienden políticas que refuercen la empleabilidad, una protección del empleo temporal más estricta y más gasto en políticas de activación (PAMT).