Arbeitspapier

Youth Unemployment in Mediterranean Countries

In all Mediterranean countries youth unemployment has reached alarming record levels. This paper analyses the current situation in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. In all countries school dropout rates are high, returns to education are low and the transition from education to work is problematic and difficult. This is due to a poor working vocational training system, the dualization of the labor market and minimum wages that are set too high. The Great Recession deteriorated the situation of young people, but youth unemployment is mostly structural. To overcome this crisis the overall performance of the labor market has to be improved.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: IZA Policy Paper ; No. 80

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
Labor Demand
Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
Thema
youth unemployment
Mediterranean countries
Europe
vocational training

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Eichhorst, Werner
Neder, Franziska
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2014

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Eichhorst, Werner
  • Neder, Franziska
  • Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)

Entstanden

  • 2014

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