Youth unemployment diagnostic, analysis and recommended politics

Abstract

[eng] The actual figures of youth unemployment rate are in skyscraper levels in some European countries; it is in discussion if the full time students should be included as part of the labor force or not. But the levels of NEET (nor in employment, education or training) in some countries are higher than 15%; like Italy; Bulgaria, Greece and Spain and this group is in real risk of becoming a scarred generation or “lost generation”. This must be taken seriously, and undertake the necessaries reforms to solve it by applying specific target politics and macro-economic politics, because youth are the future. To understand this complex problem which is youth unemployment, it is necessary to pull apart the different issues affecting it. To understand the wide picture is necessary to understand what is going on behind scenes, in issues like: ● Educational mismatch, the need of the formal and informal education, to understand the advantages of a dual-system of education based in work learning, the composition of the labour force, etc. In this dissertation, those characteristics are going to be analysed and they are going to be compare in a cross-country comparison. It is a complex situation, with complex characteristics which does not have an easy way out. Reforms, and coordination in politics are needed in the European countries as they are supported by the European programs.