scholarly journals INTERGENERATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION: OLDER ENTREPRENEURS REDUCING YOUNGSTERS’ SOCIAL AND WORK DISENGAGEMENT

2018 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Baschiera ◽  
Sara Santini ◽  
Marco Socci
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Development Theory ◽  
Intergenerational Learning ◽  
Business Results ◽  
Entrepreneurial Attitudes ◽  
Employment Education

The current generation of young Italians leaving education have never entered the labour market with more years of schooling and higher levels of academic certifications as now. Nevertheless, they are losing out in the struggle for employment. It is a paradox experienced not only across Europe and poses questions about whether young people are being trained efficiently for twenty-first century employment. Nowadays employers require that young people possess skills-oriented learning that emphasises adaptability and preparedness for change. Italian Education systems, however, have not been responsive in this way. The intergenerational education approach may be an effective method for covering the mismatch between provided education and competences required on the labour market. Experienced older entrepreneurs may give young people Not in Employment, Education, or Training (NEETs) the confidence and intellectual resources to deal with the problems they will encounter through professional life, creating new spaces of autonomy and responsibility. Two focus-groups and questionnaires with 15 NEETs and 15 qualitative interviews and questionnaires to 50+ entrepreneurs were carried out in five European countries, Italy included, to understand how an entrepreneur could help youth to start their own business. Results from Italy demonstrate that to spread a culture of entrepreneurship, senior entrepreneurs are required to strengthen NEETs’ confidence, initiative and courage, the ability to take risks and to invest in the future. Considering Lev Vygotsky’s cognitive and social development theory as applied to intergenerational learning seniors need to act as a trigger to promote NEETs’ entrepreneurial attitudes, capabilities and aspirations for life. Keywords: active participation, intergenerational entrepreneurship education, NEETs, senior entrepreneurs, social inclusion.

scholarly journals Competencies in the education of potential entrepreneurs. Research among students of technical faculties

2019 ◽  
Vol 290 ◽  
pp. 13011
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Rembiasz
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Economy ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Business Plan ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Entrepreneurial Attitudes ◽  
Basic Competencies

The aim of the article is to present the basic competencies of entrepreneurs in the contemporary market economy and to compare them with the knowledge, skills and attitudes of potential entrepreneurs, i.e. students of technical universities. The research tool used was an original questionnaire. The obtained results were subjected to statistical analysis. The declared intention to run one’s own business was compared to the declared ability to write a business plan. The results of the research presented in the article were compared with the author’s previous study into shaping entrepreneurial attitudes among students. It should be noted that, in engineering faculties, competence in entrepreneurship, management and economics is sometimes considered unnecessary. It seems, however, that the relevant knowledge gained in high school is insufficient. Young people should have a sound understanding of the principles governing the market economy and the mechanisms at work in the labour market. They should have basic legal knowledge, be able to manage and motivate people as well as plan their own business. The results of the presented research make it possible to identify the competence gap and, potentially, create entrepreneurship education programmes for technical universities.

scholarly journals Time to Work—Opposing Political Rationality with Young Peoples’ Experiences of Working in a Mandatory Activation Context in Norway

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heidi Moen Gjersøe ◽  
Anne Leseth
Keyword(s):  
Young Adults ◽  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Work Time ◽  
Temporal Dimension ◽  
Work Relations ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Political Rationality ◽  
Employment Education ◽  
Linear Manner

AbstractThis paper argues that young people, targeted by activation policies, had several temporal experiences with work that can contribute to broadening our understanding of labour market policy for this group of young people. By drawing on qualitative interviews with young people not in employment, education, or training (NEET) in a Norwegian activation context, and by applying anthropological and sociological concepts on temporality and work time in our analysis, we question how time is constructed and reproduced in the establishment of work relations among this group of people. We argue that political discourses of work inclusion for young adults (NEETs) tend to portray work as a means to an end for inclusion. In doing so, they fail to address the complex temporal dimension of work. We find that young adults have a range of complex experiences where disparity between formal and informal aspects of work becomes visible. The temporal dimension of these experiences and the relativity of speed in getting a job are not experienced in a linear manner but as churning between getting a job, having a job, and losing a job.

scholarly journals Rynek pracy i system edukacyjny. Zarys problematyki

2014 ◽  
pp. 159-176
Author(s):  
Alicja Michalska
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Member States ◽  
Active Population ◽  
Financial Conditions ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Employment Education ◽  
The Government ◽  
Flexible Management ◽  
The Eu

In Poland and other European Union member states, young people are disfavoured by employers in the labour market. This applies to the forms of employment (flexible and fixed- term contracts) and its financial conditions. In 2013, the unemployment rate among economically active population under the age of 25 in the EU was 23.1%, while in Poland it amounted to 27 %. The problems of the young people in the labour market include the mismatch of skills sought by employers and the ones mastered by potential employees, the limited number of new jobs, as well as the discriminatory practices of employers towards young people. Young people classified as NEET (not in employment, education, training) generate considerable social costs. In 2010, 16.5 % of individuals in the 18–24 group and 19.7 % in the 25 29 group in the EU were classified as  NEETs. The EU supported the member states’ governments actions regarding young people via the Lisbon Strategy and the Europe 2020 Strategy. The EU also proposed a new model for flexible management of the labour market (the so-called flexicurity) to improve the efficiency of labour markets and to ensure more jobs while fostering social security of workers. In Poland, the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy implemented the government policy as well as the recommendations of the European Commission through the “Youth in the labour market” programme.

scholarly journals Entrepreneurship Education at Indian Industrial Training Institutes – A Case Study of the Prescribed, Adopted and Enacted Curriculum in and around Bangalore

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lea Zenner ◽  
Kumar Kothandaraman ◽  
Matthias Pilz
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Industrial Training ◽  
Social Challenges ◽  
Self Employment ◽  
Enacted Curriculum ◽  
Growing Economy ◽  
Prescribed Curriculum

On the one hand, India is a growing economy that needs skilled labour, self-employed entrepreneurs and employees to tackle its economic and social challenges. On the other hand, India faces high unemployment rates, especially among young people. Graduates from industrial training institutes (ITIs) in particular are often facing difficulties in pursuing self-employment. Entrepreneurship education is an essential element in preparing young people for self-employment. This paper analyses how and to what extent entrepreneurship education has been conceived and implemented in vocational schools in and around Bangalore to face these challenges. Methodologically the authors use a three-step approach following the theories of a `prescribed', `adopted' or `enacted' curriculum. Qualitative interviews are used for the analysis of the adopted and enacted curriculum. The authors conclude that whereas the prescribed curriculum includes several elements of entrepreneurship education and teacher's understanding is in line with the prescription, the understanding is seldom translated into input in the day-to-day teaching. The plausible reasons for this gap are discussed in this paper.

scholarly journals Mapping Young NEETs Across Europe: Exploring the Institutional Configurations Promoting Youth Disengagement from Education and Employment

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Luise Assmann ◽  
Sven Broschinski
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Term Care ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
Employment Education ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
High Level

AbstractOver the past decade, the number of young people neither in employment, education, or training (NEET) has reached a seriously high level in many European countries. Previous studies have illustrated the heterogeneity of this group and that they differ considerably across Europe. However, the reasons of these cross-country differences have hardly been investigated so far. This study explores how the rates of different NEET subgroups are conditioned by various institutional configurations by applying fuzzy-set Quantitative Comparative Analysis for 26 European countries using aggregated EU Labour Force Survey data from 2018. The analysis reveals that institutional causes of being NEET are as diverse as the group itself. Thus, high levels of young NEETs with care responsibilities are found in countries with a lack of family-related services in conjunction with weak formalised long-term care as it is true in mostly Central Eastern European countries. In contrast, high rates of NEETs with a disability are prevalent mainly in Northern European countries where generous and inefficient disability benefit schemes exist that create false incentives to stay away from the labour market. Finally, high proportions of unemployed and discouraged young NEETs are found in those countries hit hardest by the crisis and with high labour market rigidities, low vocational specificity, and a lack of active labour market policies like in the Southern and some Central Eastern European countries. The results illustrate that young people face very different barriers across Europe and that country-specific measures must be taken to reduce the number of NEETs in Europe.

scholarly journals Homeschooling in Secler Region, Romania

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-106
Author(s):  
Kinga Magdolna Mandel
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Forced Migration ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Snowball Sampling ◽  
Language Tests

AbstractIntroduction: In the presented article, we are looking for the solutions and challenges of homeschooling in terms of further education and labour market inclusion.Purpose: The purpose of the paper is to discuss the conceptual framework of a research-initiative on homeschooling. What are the consequences? Because of a lack of adequate state language usage, is there a forced migration in the pupils’ career paths? To what extent are homeschoolers included into traditional compulsory education, lifelong learning, the labor market, and the society?Methods: This is a paper with the conceptual framework of a research, where snowball sampling based qualitative interviews are planned.Results: From the research to be conducted, the authors expect a reliable picture of the causes, challenges and consequences of homeschooling on lifelong learning, the labour market and social inclusion.Discussion: It seems that homeschooling in the Seclerland is a de-schooling solution, because it is usually opted by parents dissatisfied with the quality of education. It helps them avoid Romanian language tests of skills and maturity examinations. We assume that those with outstanding competencies (e.g. in music or sports) or those with a certain handicap (e.g. health problems), as well as those temporarily living abroad are choosing it. It can be a sort of forced solution, a self-defense strategy that protects students from increasing school conflicts, and a reaction to the lack of satisfactory educational offers, commuting, or school segregation.Limitations: Limitations of research are due to the snowball sample method and time/money limits.Conclusions: We hope that, above all, the results will help parents to take a wise decision on whether to choose this option or not, but also schools and decision makers in education to assess their roles in the process and make changes if they want to and can do so.

NEET- social group of young people, who is at risk of social and professional exclusion

2019 ◽  
Vol X (2 (27)) ◽  
pp. 105-125
Author(s):  
Patryk Barszcz
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Social Group ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
Employment Education

In this article was presented casus of NEET in youth in current Polish society. This term is used when we say about Youth at the age of 15 to 29, who is not active in labour market. NEETs are not in employment, education or training. The main aim of this work was to present the phenomenon of NEET in reference to social exlusion. It was made an analysis of NEET in Europe in last dacade 2007-2017. This article also presented the causes and effects of this style of live in Youth people. The main bibliography was reports from Eurostat, which informed about situation of Youth in labour market and periodical of social exclusion.

scholarly journals DETERMINANTS OF NEET (NOT IN EMPLOYMENT, EDUCATION OR TRAINING) ON THE POLISH LABOUR MARKET

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna M. Rak
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Young People ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Individual Risk ◽  
Job Seeking ◽  
Employment Education ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Individual Risk Factors ◽  
The Eu

The principal purpose of the study is to identify the individual risk factors of young people becoming the NEET generation on the Polish labour market. The first part of the paper comprises a literature-based overview of definitions of the NEET category based and a presentation of the risk factors of young people becoming NEET. The second part presents the results of empirical analyses conducted employing a questionnaire on a group of 120 individuals, aged 15 through 30, who met all criteria of the NEET definition set forth by the Employment Committee of the EU. The research demonstrates that among the major determinants of young people becoming NEET are financial hardship of their households, low motivation to continue formal education or change professional qualifications, and low level of job-seeking activity.

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