Contributions to school-to-work transitions: vocational training, skill mismatch and policy The persistently high youth unemployment rates in many countries are of major concern in society and a challenge for researchers to provide evidence for policy-making (Francesco Pastore and Zimmermann, 2019; Zimmermann et al., 2013). Recent interest has concentrated on a better understanding of the role of specific institutional features of different school-to-work transition (SWT) regimes in affecting the youth labor market performance (Pastore, 2015a, b). To foster this academic debate, the Global Labor Organization (GLO) had created in 2017 the GLO School-to-Work Transition Cluster under the leadership of Francesco Pastore. From this initiative, a first set of seven research papers were published in a special issue on “Advances on School-to-Work Transitions” (International Journal of Manpower, Vol. 40, No. 3) edited by Francesco Pastore and Klaus F. Zimmermann. In a second round, seven additional contributions in this special issue, Part II, deal with the role of vocational training, overeducation and skill mismatch and labor market conditions and policy for the SWT. We provide a brief guide into the value added to our understanding of this important process.

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对学校到工作过渡的贡献：职业培训，技能错配和政策

对学校到工作过渡的贡献：职业培训，技能错配和政策许多国家青年失业率持续高企是社会关注的主要问题，也是研究人员为决策提供证据的挑战（Francesco Pastore和Zimmermann，2019年） ； Zimmermann等，2013）。最近的兴趣集中在对不同的学校到工作过渡（SWT）制度的特定制度特征在影响青年劳动力市场绩效中的作用的更好理解上（Pastore，2015a，b）。为了促进这场学术辩论，全球劳工组织（GLO）在Francesco Pastore的领导下于2017年创建了GLO从学校到工作的过渡集群。通过这项倡议，第一组七篇研究论文发表在由Francesco Pastore和Klaus F. Zimmermann编辑的“学校到工作过渡的进展”（国际人力杂志，第40卷，第3期）的特刊上。在第二轮中，本期特刊的第二部分（第二部分）提供了另外七篇文章，论述了职业培训，过度教育和技能错配以及SWT的劳动力市场条件和政策的作用。我们提供了一个简短的指南，介绍了对我们对该重要过程的理解所带来的增值。