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IDENTIFIERS *England; *Germany A comparison study of the school-to-work transitions of young people aged 16-19 in Germany and England was followed up several years later when the former subjects were in their early twenties. Research was conducted through interviews, case studies, and studies of labor market trends. The analysis of the transition of the young people studied identified four types of transition behavior: strategic, step by step, wait and see, and t-king chances; it classified career patterns as progressive, upward drift, stagnant, downward drift, and repaired. The study found that the German system better prepared young people for the labor market, but that it was more unforgiving of those who had not been good students as well as more rigid, making career change difficult. In contrast, the English system was more flexible, responding almost constantly to changin