Policy transfer and innovation for building resilient bridges to the youth labor market

2018 ◽  
pp. 163-192
Author(s):  
Maria Petmesidou ◽  
María González Menéndez
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Complex Needs ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Diffusion Of Knowledge ◽  
Youth Labor Market ◽  
Youth At Risk ◽  
And Gender

In the aftermath of the Great Recession, rising levels of youth unemployment led to an array of policy responses involving learning, transfer, and experimentation to address the complex needs of youth at risk. Reviewing these recent experiences, this chapter examines nine European countries (including Turkey) representing a range of different school-to-work transition regimes and with varying levels of youth unemployment and gender inequalities. It analyzes the institutional and process “enablers” of and “barriers” to policy learning and innovation, and it traces the pathways and major foci of learning and transfer within and between countries, as well as through supranational channels. This examination highlights where changes in policy governance have occurred. It is concluded that innovative initiatives for sustained labor market integration of youth require a policy environment that is conducive to coordinated sharing and diffusion of knowledge between different levels of administration and joint stakeholders’ bodies.

scholarly journals Youth Labor Market Integration in European Regions

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (9) ◽  
pp. 3813
Author(s):  
Ruggero Cefalo ◽  
Rosario Scandurra ◽  
Yuri Kazepov
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Structural Characteristics ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
School To Work ◽  
Labor Market Participation ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Labor Market Integration ◽  
Youth Labor Market ◽  
Wide Range

Countries’ institutional configurations and structural characteristics play an important role in shaping transitions from school to work. Recent empirical evidence shows significant regional and territorial differences in youth unemployment and labor market participation. Along this research strand, we argue in favor of a place-sensitive approach to youth labor market integration in order to address the regional disparities of young people’s opportunities. In order to investigate the synergic effect of different contextual configurations, we construct a composite measure, namely, the youth labor market integration (YLMI) index. This considers a wide range of indicators of the access, exclusion, and duration of the transition into employment at the regional level. The YLMI index allows cross-regional and longitudinal comparisons of the European Union (EU) local labor markets and youth employment opportunities.

Comparing Youth Transitions in Europe

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-29
Author(s):  
Jacqueline O’Reilly ◽  
Janine Leschke ◽  
Renate Ortlieb ◽  
Martin Seeleib-Kaiser ◽  
Paola Villa
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Early Career ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Labor Market Transitions ◽  
Economic Production ◽  
Youth Labor Market ◽  
Inclusive Analysis ◽  
Market Transitions

This introductory chapter outlines the key trends and debates concerning the rapid growth of youth unemployment and early career labor market insecurity in Europe. It discusses new forms of segmentation and the distinction between “poorly integrated youth” and those “left behind” in relation to gender, ethnicity, and class inequalities. The chapter begins by contextualizing European youth employment trends. Subsequently, it examines how European countries have performed in relation to integrating young people into work, as captured by the use of different indicators and typologies in comparative research on youth transition regimes. It points to how these types of analysis affect policy debates. Providing an overview of the contributions to this volume, it suggests that an inclusive analysis of both the sphere of social reproduction and economic production are required to improve our understanding of youth labor market transitions and insecurity since the Great Recession.

What happens to young people who move to another country to find work?

2018 ◽  
pp. 389-418
Author(s):  
Mehtap Akgüç ◽  
Miroslav Beblavý
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Labor Market Outcomes ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Social Surveys ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Migrant Youth ◽  
Contract Type ◽  
And Gender

This chapter analyzes the labor market integration of South–North and East–West migrants, together with intra-European and non-European Union migrants, vis-à-vis native peers in main European destinations. The analysis considers individual characteristics and labor market outcomes by migrant origins. Labor market outcomes are estimated, controlling for sociodemographic characteristics and for country-fixed and year effects. Using interaction effects, the chapter estimates whether the work-related outcomes of young migrants differ vis-à-vis native peers. The econometric analysis using pooled European Social Surveys (2002–2015) suggests that individual characteristics explain part of the migrant–native peer differences. Particularly, migrants from Eastern and Southern Europe exhibit important gaps vis-à-vis native peers regarding unemployment, contract type, and overqualification. Overall, migrant youth and women seem to be in vulnerable situations in destination labor markets. In addition to nondiscriminatory treatment, transparent competence screening and smooth skills transferability could alleviate such youth and gender vulnerabilities.

On Gender, Labor, and Inequality

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Milkman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Women Workers ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gender Inequalities ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

The author's groundbreaking research in women's labor history has contributed important perspectives on work and unionism in the United States. This book presents four decades of the author's essential writings, tracing the parallel evolutions of her ideas and the field she helped define. The book's introduction frames a career-spanning scholarly project: the interrogation of historical and contemporary intersections of class and gender inequalities in the workplace, and the efforts to challenge those inequalities. Early chapters focus on the author's pioneering work on women's labor during the Great Depression and the World War II years. The book's second half turns to the past fifty years, a period that saw a dramatic decline in gender inequality even as growing class imbalances created greater-than-ever class disparity among women. The book concludes with a previously unpublished essay comparing the impact of the Great Depression and the Great Recession on women workers.

scholarly journals How can young people’s employment quality be assessed dynamically?

2018 ◽  
pp. 237-270
Author(s):  
Gabriella Berloffa ◽  
Eleonora Matteazzi ◽  
Gabriele Mazzolini ◽  
Alina Şandor ◽  
Paola Villa
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Women's Labor ◽  
Gender And Education ◽  
Youth Labor Market ◽  
Gender Education ◽  
Labor Market Entry ◽  
Males And Females ◽  
Education Gaps ◽  
Employment Quality

This chapter adopts a dynamic approach to the study of youth labor market integration. It focuses on individual trajectories (i.e., sequences of employment statuses) and considers the timing, order, and length of employment and jobless spells. It uses EU-SILC longitudinal data (2006–2012) for 17 countries to depict youth employment outcomes in two different phases: labor market entry and approximately 5 years after leaving education. The extent to which the experience of a certain trajectory type differs by gender, education level, and across countries is analyzed. Results show that although males and females have similar chances of accessing paid employment rapidly, women’s labor market conditions deteriorate over the following few years in terms of both security and success. Stricter rules on the use of temporary contracts tend to reduce the probability of fragmented trajectories in both phases, narrowing the gender and education gaps with respect to employment and income security.

scholarly journals Assessment of the current status of youth employment in Kazakhstan and the system of its state support

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-120
Author(s):  
G. Zh. Doskeyeva
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Youth Unemployment ◽  
Comprehensive Analysis ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Youth Employment ◽  
Regulation System ◽  
State Support ◽  
Youth Labor Market

The purpose of the study is to analyze the current state of the youth labor market in Kazakhstan and its main indicators, consider and assess the mechanism of functioning of the system of state support for youth employment; also in reviewing the possibilities of government programs aimed at combating unemployment, including youth unemployment resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.The research methodology includes statistical and economic, dialectical and comparative methods that were used in writing this scientific article. Since statistical and economic methods are a set of methods used in a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of the development of certain economic processes, in this article, using the method under consideration, indicators of youth employment in Kazakhstan were grouped, statistical information was developed and analyzed, and also with the help of graphs and diagrams, the analysis results are displayed and assessed the state of the youth labor market. And with the help of the dialectical method, the state of development of economic processes in the labor market, in particular the relationship and interaction between the elements of the mechanism of state support was revealed. Using the comparative method, a comparative analysis of the indicators of the youth labor market and the experience of the functioning of the mechanism of state regulation, as well as the dynamics of changes in the indicators of youth unemployment over a five-year period was carried out.The originality / value of the study lies in a comprehensive analysis of youth employment indicators in Kazakhstan for 2015-2019 and an assessment of the mechanism for the functioning of state programs and other elements of the state regulation system aimed at supporting the youth labor market in the context of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.Findings - main focus andfindings of the article. The research results are related to the analysis of the main indicators of the youth labor market in Kazakhstan and the identification of the main priorities of social policy aimed at improving the system of state support for youth employment.

The vocational impact of educational programs on youth labor market integration

2019 ◽  
Vol 64 ◽  
pp. 100437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ardita Muja ◽  
Lieselotte Blommaert ◽  
Maurice Gesthuizen ◽  
Maarten H.J. Wolbers
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Educational Programs ◽  
Labor Market Integration ◽  
Youth Labor Market
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