Long-term consequences of graduating at a bad time
This working paper explores whether graduating at a bad time scars careers of youth when it comes to increased future unemployment and overpresentation in fixed-term and involuntary part-time work.
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Strategies to improve labour market integration for young people
A Anew paper analyzes national strategies to implement the Youth Guarantee (YG).
Negotiating private life
Sara Ayllón from the University of Girona in Spain has written a new working paper in which she takes a closer look at the potential impact of the high levels of job insecurity caused by the Great recession on fertility decisions among young people in Europe.
Early job insecurity and consequences for the transition to adulthood
The transition to adulthood is a process which poses various hardships to young people and in which they need to take significant decisions about their future. When this process coincides with economic and financial crisis, with political and labour market transformation, the situation of the youth is further hampered.
The role of the economic crisis in determining the degree of early job insecurity in Europe
The overarching aim of WP3 is to set out a general context in which young people in each country and across Europe form their work expectations and «negotiate» their labour market integration and transition from youth to adulthood. Maria Symeonaki and the Greek team at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (UPSPS), Greece have […]
Strategies to improve labour market integration of young people
WP8 deals with the co-ordination of policy measures and strategies to strengthen young people`s negotiating position in the transition to the labour market. Central to this is the development and coordination of policy efforts within systems of multi-level governance. The first stage is to develop a framework and a common template for national chapters concerning the […]
Unemployment, drugs and attitudes among European youth
The seventh NEGOTIATE working paper, “The effects of the economic crisis on drug consumption of young individuals in Europe – unemployment, drugs and attitudes among European youth”, focuses on understanding whether strong negative labour market conditions have an effect on youth adolescents’ consumption of both legal and illegal drugs. NEGOTIATE working paper no D4.2 (pdf) […]
First Working Papers are published
Amongst the general population in Europe youth is facing the highest job insecurity levels in comparison to other groups. Nearly one in four of young people in the EU is jobless, and in some countries the youth unemployment affects nearly half of the youth population. Good education level is not anymore a guarantee of having […]