... employment policy in recent literature and identifies external constraints on policy autonomy, particularly the influence of international financial institutions, such as the IMF. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated the youth unemployment issue, with significant job losses across these countries...

... sector participation both at the meso and micro levels with respect to policies aimed at contrasting youth unemployment. Acconcia Giuseppe CA capabilities approach Chiappero Martinetti Enrica disadvantage Giambellino Milan case study Graziano Paolo R Scampia Naples case study third sector...

...This chapter examines countries' performance regarding youth unemployment. Although the labour market situation of young people has started to improve in a number of countries since the Great Recession of 2007–8, youth unemployment still remains very high across Europe. High youth unemployment...

... of these social divisions is central to knowing which kinds of policy interventions might be most effective in addressing current levels of youth unemployment. The chapter then looks at what happens to young people who leave home and/or set up their own families, and whether the recent recession has increased...

...This book is based on data from a new comparative study of Youth Unemployment and Social Exclusion in Europe (YUSE) data. The various chapters included in this book investigate the situation of unemployed youth (aged 18 to 24-years-old) and their risk of social exclusion. It is important...

...This chapter discusses that youth unemployment in Europe has brought about the creation of several policy initiatives to reduce the said predicament. It explains that youth unemployment varies among European countries and declined during the period 1997–2003. The chapter argues that flexibilisation...

... democratic welfare regimes Spain sub protective welfare regime Sweden United Kingdom universalistic welfare regime welfare regimes youth unemployment corporatist welfare regimes employment centred welfare regimes Hammer T Latin rim welfare regimes Mediterranean welfare regimes Youth Unemployment...

... providing an in-depth look at the nature and magnitude of youth unemployment in the southern region of Italy in comparison to the rest of the country and the continent, it explores the contributions of the great recession, human capital development, and labor market coordination with the educational sector...

... In a context of high youth unemployment rates, the employability agenda has dominated the design of European lifelong learning (LLL) policies. While the assumption of this agenda is that the causes of youth unemployment are individual and of an educational nature, our study explores to what extent...

... social justice sweatshops personalisation of support social enterprises paradox alert refusal right of counselling training Confederation of Danish Employers Larsen Jørn Neergaard making work pay 225 hour rule Youth unemployment social assistance laziness social heritage categorisation...

...This chapter scrutinises the performance of the selected nation states and the regime types in relation to autonomy and relational harms. The harms included in this chapter are poverty, child poverty, financial insecurity, long working hours, youth unemployment and social isolation. The chapter...

...This chapter examines the association between unemployment careers and the risk of financial deprivation and sources of income in Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland, Spain and Italy. It is shown that Italy, Spain and Finland had the highest youth unemployment, and Italy in particular had a very...

... Nordic countries social democratic welfare regime Social Europe sub protective welfare model Norway Sweden citizenship rights scheme participation United Kingdom UK youth schemes youth unemployment Italy Spain Britain Finland financial deprivation marginalisation The main finding...

...-building. In conjunction with poverty reduction, the Post-2015 Development Agenda must tackle the growing problem of youth unemployment. It also must take into account the macroeconomic vulnerabilities of developing countries and the role of technology, such as mobile phones, in intermediating global...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of youth unemployment. In countries hit hardest by the Great Recession of 2008, young people have faced some of the largest obstacles in finding stable employment, or any kind of employment. Even in countries with a better performance record of getting...

...This chapter investigates the probability of successive periods of youth unemployment in France, Germany and Sweden. Two sets of factors are included in the Poisson model: micro-level data such as age, gender and education, and macro-level data such as youth unemployment rate, adult unemployment...

... more ‘effective’, that is, able to integrate the largest possible number of young people and to have closer links to the labour market, in order to produce relevant qualifications. The results also raise the question of whether ALMP is a good instrument for tackling youth unemployment. active labour...

... Rodriquez E Strandh M part time employment mental health problems youth unemployment Finland Sweden Germany Spain labour market buffers predictors young women There is a vast body of knowledge regarding the interrelation between mental health and unemployment, which predominantly shows...

... unemployment career measure youth unemployment Denmark Italy economic instability mental health emotional wellbeing Since the first studies on the psychosocial effects of unemployment were carried out in the 1930s (Jahoda et al, 1933 ; Eisenberg and Lazarsfeld, 1938 ), one of the most closely studied...

... right wing political sympathies Scotland Sweden France Spain long term unemployment voting in elections gender strike action Nordic countries youth unemployment welfare regimes political activity political attitudes Scotland Germany Denmark Norway Finland Italy A great deal...