Table of Contents

• Executive summary
• Preface
• 1. A conceptual framework
  • Employability: an appropriate concept in the transition process
  • Building a model to enhance employability
• 2. The Canadian environment
  • The diversity of individual situations
    • Aging of Canadian society
    • Immigration
    • Equity groups in the population
    • Labour force status and level of education
    • Geographic distribution of equity groups
    • Occupational structure of equity groups
  • The labour market
    • Trends in employment by industry
    • Trends in employment by occupation
    • Trends in self-employment
    • Changes in the workplace
  • People making transitions
    • Magnitude of the population undertaking transitions
    • The difficulty of getting a new job
    • Education
    • The quality of the new jobs
    • Equity groups and transitions
  • The experience of school leavers
    • Profiles of school leavers and graduates
    • Effect of leaving school on transitions into employment
  • The role of post-secondary education
    • Level of education and field of study
    • Unemployment during the transition period
    • Job permanence
    • Earnings
    • Relation of job to education
    • Education requirements of the job
    • Job satisfaction
    • Graduates of cooperative programs
    • Gender
    • Graduates with disabilities
    • Aboriginal graduates
    • Visible minorities
    • Equity group participation in cooperative programs

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