Youth Unemployment in Europe: What to Do about It?

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Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. This paper gives an overview of the current situation and assesses different policy options. It emphasizes the role of stronger intra-EU mobility of young workers, policies to make vocational training systems more effective and to adjust employment protection as well as activating labor market policies. However, short-term remedies are not available, despite the fact that the EU has announced massive European initiatives. Rather, European countries should take the opportunity of the crisis to implement forward-looking structural reforms.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Policy Paper ; No. 65

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search ; Fertility; Family Planning; Child Care; Children; Youth
• Subject: fixed-term contracts ; Europe ; vocational training ; youth unemployment ; Jugendarbeitslosigkeit ; Berufsbildungspolitik ; Arbeitsmigranten ; Aktivierende Arbeitsmarktpolitik ; EU-Staaten

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Eichhorst, Werner ; Hinte, Holger ; Rinne, Ulf
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2013

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/91749
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET