Blame it on my youth! Policy recommendations for re-evaluating and reducing youth unemployment

"Youth unemployment has ranked high on the agenda of European policymakers since the onset of the crisis. Ten years later, youth unemployment remains stubbornly high in a number of member states. This paper offers policy recommendations for rethinking and reducing youth unemployment in Europe....

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Main Authors: Zilhoffer, Zak, Beblavy, Miroslav, Lenaerts, Karolien
Institution:ETUI-European Trade Union Institute
Format: TEXT
Language:English
Published: Brussels 2018
CEPS
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Online Access:https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19397140124911153229-Blame-it-on-my-youth!-Policy-r.htm
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author Zilhoffer, Zak
Beblavy, Miroslav
Lenaerts, Karolien
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Beblavy, Miroslav
Lenaerts, Karolien
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description "Youth unemployment has ranked high on the agenda of European policymakers since the onset of the crisis. Ten years later, youth unemployment remains stubbornly high in a number of member states. This paper offers policy recommendations for rethinking and reducing youth unemployment in Europe. To this end, it filters and summarises the results of the STYLE research project on youth unemployment in Europe, and supplements these with additional literature. The paper explores three sets of questions: i) How to define and measure youth employment? ii) What are its causes and effects? and iii) What can be done about the phenomenon? The findings indicate that youth unemployment is poorly understood and the most common measurements are insufficient. Its causes are diverse, arising from both the inherent disadvantages suffered by younger people in the labour market as well as from structural changes occurring in the labour market. The effects of youth unemployment are detrimental and significant at both the societal and individual level. Based on our analysis, we put forward 13 broad policy recommendations to address youth unemployment in Europe."
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is_hierarchy_title Blame it on my youth! Policy recommendations for re-evaluating and reducing youth unemployment
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CEPS
spellingShingle Zilhoffer, Zak
Beblavy, Miroslav
Lenaerts, Karolien
youth unemployment
labour market
transition from school to work
activation
Blame it on my youth! Policy recommendations for re-evaluating and reducing youth unemployment
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title Blame it on my youth! Policy recommendations for re-evaluating and reducing youth unemployment
topic youth unemployment
labour market
transition from school to work
activation
url https://www.labourline.org/KENTIKA-19397140124911153229-Blame-it-on-my-youth!-Policy-r.htm