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An attempt has been taken on conceptual framework for analyzing the transition of urban youth from education to lab our market. Paper focuses on the general and vocational employment of educated urban youth in Jammu city. The present study will be a median attempt to understand and analyze the economic dimension of educated urban youth transition from education to labour market. Educated urban youth shows long period of transition and appear to be more sensitive to indifferent approach of the government and policy makers specifically. Unemployment problem is compounded by poor performance of education in general and vocational education in particular. This study will be an attempt to analyze the following objectives: Education and Labour Market transition, the Gender Gaps in Education and Vocational education attainment & Gender gap in labour market transition. To draw policy implications to enable the educated urban youth for smoother and speedier transitioning into labour market with needed skills and productive potential. The study major policy implications are significant investments in terms of appropriate policies and programmes are required to achieve higher employment rates and elimination of gender disparity in vocational education, harness its demographic dividend and enable youth to participate in and benefit from global development.