Essays on the social inclusion of young people : family and labor market pathways.

Summary Chapter 1 examines the role of home culture on how young men and women differ in their choices to delay leaving the parental home. I show that in cultures characterized by traditional gender role values, young men have more incentives than young women to stay at home. When women from these cultures move to a more gender-role liberal society, they leave home sooner and seek husbands from a different culture. In the second chapter, we show, based on CV testing, that young people with low qualifications are less likely to be recalled by private sector employers if they are North African than if they are French. However, the origin of the candidates has no effect on the recall rate in the public sector, even though recruiters in both sectors have similar discriminatory preferences. Our model shows that the absence of discrimination at the invitation for an interview in the public sector is compatible, in this context, with a higher discrimination at the hiring stage. Chapter 3 also uses CV testing to study the effects of work experience for high school dropouts four years after leaving school. In the absence of certification training, the recall rate is not higher for those who have had work experience, subsidized or not, in the market or non-market sector than for those who remain unemployed. Moreover, certification training improves recall rates only when the local unemployment rate is low.