Much of the literature that addresses youth unemployment has been framed within an economic paradigm and much less attention has been focused on the role played by country-specific value orientations in structuring economic activity.
Drawing on extensive fieldwork research and the work of experts in Europe and the United States, this book provides a culturally nuanced analysis of key issues relating to youth unemployment.
Examining the causes and consequences of youth unemployment, it explores ways forward to promote economic self-sufficiency. This pioneering work offers invaluable tailored policy solutions to tackle one of today’s most important socioeconomic issues.
Introduction Youth unemployment rose in Portugal from the early 2000s and reached a peak of 38.1% in 2014. Due to the severity of this problem, the past two decades saw the implementation of several public programmes to tackle the rise of youth unemployment. This chapter takes stock of these initiatives and explores the Portuguese strategy to address this phenomenon. This work is part of a book that puts forward two alternatives to address youth unemployment – the German vocational and the American entrepreneurial models – and discusses whether Portugal
67 Recurrence of youth unemployment FIVE Recurrence of youth unemployment: a longitudinal comparative approach Isabelle Recotillet and Patrick Werquin Introduction The transition from school to work is of primary interest to researchers in labour economics. Because of the high rate of youth unemployment in Europe, researchers now tend to evaluate the effects of unemployment on early labour market experience. Young people tend to be unemployed for shorter periods than adults but the frequency of their unemployment is higher. Because young people encounter
161 Activation or alienation EIGHT Activation or alienation: youth unemployment within different European welfare communities Jan Carle and Torild Hammer Introduction What we would like to explore in this chapter is the possibility of discussing political behaviour among young unemployed people within the framework of theories of welfare, citizenship and trust. The argument for this discussion is based on four different explanatory perspectives often used within research on youth unemployment. One perspective explores unemployment as a statistical phenomenon
This important new book presents the findings of the first comparative study of unemployed youth in Europe using a large and original data set. It addresses some of the key questions around the issue including:
How do young people cope with unemployment?
Does unemployment lead to social exclusion of young people, implying a withdrawal from society, financial deprivation and social isolation?
Drawing on a research sample of over 17000 young unemployed people in ten European countries, the book examines how different welfare strategies and labour market policies in different countries influence the risk of social exclusion among unemployed youth.
rates of unemployment among youth, some institutional responses to curb the problem, and also propose some solutions. We focus particularly in the southern part of the country where youth unemployment is severe. Youth unemployment concerns people who, in most cases, approach the labor market for the first time. Such individuals have very little experience of the labor market; likewise, firms know very little about them. It is no surprise, therefore, that the market fails more with young people than it does with adults. Having little or no experience of the labor
439 Policy & Politics • vol 42 • no 3 • 439-58 • © Policy Press 2014 • #PPjnl @policy_politics Print ISSN 0305 5736 • Online ISSN 1470 8442 • http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/030557312X655648 article International governmental organisations and global youth unemployment: the normative and ideational foundations of policy discourses Ross Fergusson, ross.fergusson@open.ac.uk Nicola Yeates, n.yeates@open.ac.uk The Open University, UK This article compares policy discourses concerning youth unemployment of seven international governmental organisations (IGOs). We
Policy and Politics, Vol. 14 No.2 (1986),161-188 LINKING POLICY AREAS: IT education, training and youth unemployment in the UK and West Germany! Jeremy Moon, Douglas Webber and J. J. Richardson Introduction It is now generally accepted that Western European Democracies have exhibited the tendency of sectorised or segmented policy-making. In the British case the classic example of sectorisation was provided by the late Lord Boyle when he described the nature of the education policy process - namely that the starting point for education policy was in the
81 Youth unemployment and job-seeking behaviour in Europe FOUR Youth unemployment and job-seeking behaviour in Europe José Luis Álvaro and Alicia Garrido Luque Introduction For quite some time youth unemployment has been a much-debated issue in the European Union. Although long-term unemployment brings the risk of economic and social marginalisation for everyone who is affected by it, the idea that young people, who are only beginning their transition to adulthood, can become marginalised in the labour market is particularly disturbing. In the five European
43 Youth unemployment and the risk of social exclusion THREE Youth unemployment and the risk of social exclusion: comparative analysis of qualitative data Thomas Kieselbach Introduction YUSEDER The YUSEDER1 research project – ‘Youth Unemployment and Social Exclusion: Objective Dimensions, Subjective Experiences, and Innovative Institutional Responses in Six European Countries’ – tries to answer some crucial questions with regard to the risk of social exclusion associated with long-term youth unemployment. It asks for key mechanisms linking the experience of long
