Unemployment And Labour Force Behaviour Of Young People

While the unemployment rate for young people has always tended to be well above the average, this tendency has been greatly accentuated in recent years. There is a large turnover in the youth labour force, and the employment of experience of those between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five has been marked by seasonal variations. This study discusses the factors which contribute to the high youth unemployment rate, examines the historical record of labout force participation, and provides some projections into the future.

Young people are a vulnerable category of workers, finding themselves in a delicate phase of their working life: their first entry into the labour market. In many European countries, youngsters are unemployed or have difficulty finding and obtaining jobs. This situation has deteriorated particularly after the crises, recessions and stagnation that has impacted European economies in recent years. In addition to the cyclical or crisis impact, structural factors are also very important. Additionally, prolonged crises, as in some Eurozone countries, have transformed a significant part of cyclical unemployment in structural (long term) unemployment. Young People and the Labour Market: A Comparative Perspective explores the condition of young people in the labour market. The authors present new evidence from several countries, with a special focus on Europe, and offer a comparative perspective. They investigate questions such as which structural conditions and labour market institutions guarantee better youth performance, which education systems and school-to-work processes are more effective and in which countries is gender differentiation less of an issue. All of the aforementioned, as well as many other comparisons which the authors make, are significant in helping to facilitate the successful design of labour and education policies. As the first investigation by economists to explore the complexity of this topic, this book will be useful to both economists and sociologists who are interested in the role of young people in the labour market, and the problem of youth unemployment.

Planeada por la UNESCO, esta obra aborda el crucial problema del desempleo juvenil. En su introducción, el compilador, Alain Touraine presenta una visión del tema, haciendo hincapié en algunas cuestiones que son aún tópicas: ¿no es sintomático el desempleo de una sociedad que no confía en el futuro?; ¿se puede considerar el problema del desempleo juvenil aislado de las estructuras sociales establecidas?; ¿no es artificial e incluso peligroso examinar la cuestión separándola de los problemas reales, que son esencialmente económicos?; ¿quienes toman las decisiones deberían dar prioridad a las medidas políticas, económicas o sociales?. Varios autores abordan el empleo y desempleo juvenil en Europa, los Países Arabes, Asia, Africa y Latinoamérica. Dadas las dimensiones internacionales de este problema, las respuestas sólo pueden concebirse a través de una comprensión internacional que tenga en cuenta las aspiraciones, motivaciones y objetivos que reflejen las circunstancias reales y necesidades de cada nación. Incluye un anexo que trata el desempleo juvenil en relación con las ciencias sociales.

While overall unemployment has declined, the unemployment rate remains nearly twice as high for young people 16 to 19 years of age and nearly three times as high for those aged 20 to 24. Rates of unemployment and underemployment are nearly two to three times higher for Black and Latino youth. In Youth, Jobs, and the Future, Lynn S. Chancer, Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, and Christine Trost have gathered a cast of well-known interdisciplinary scholars to confront the persistent issues of youth unemployment and worsening socio-economic precarity in the United States. The book explores structural and cultural causes of youth unemployment, their ramifications for both native and immigrant youth, and how middle- and working-class youth across diverse races and ethnicities are affected within and outside the legal economy. A needed contribution, this book locates solutions to youth unemployment in economic and political changes as well as changes in cultural attitudes.