Educational Jobs Youth And Employability In The Social Economy

Author : Vanna Boffo,Paolo Federighi,Francesca Torlone
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-27
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788866558286

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Educational Jobs: Youth and Employability in the Social Economy by Vanna Boffo,Paolo Federighi,Francesca Torlone Pdf

In Europe the social economy employs almost 15 million workers. During the crisis years, unlike other sectors, it has often generated an increase in jobs. The aim of this comparative study is to investigate how to allow the supply and demand for young people to meet in the different types of social economy bodies. In particular, it concentrates on the problem of how to bring into line initial university training and the skills required by these organizations. The focus is placed on the varied family of training workers present in at least 75% of the organizations, whose professionalism is nevertheless rarely acknowledged. The papers proposed in this book try to identify the most suitable solutions at the level of curriculum, career development and accompanying measures, while drawing solutions from objective findings and not from training system needs or convictions.

Author : David G. Blanchflower,Richard B. Freeman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226056845

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Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries by David G. Blanchflower,Richard B. Freeman Pdf

The economic status of young people has declined significantly over the past two decades, despite a variety of programs designed to aid new workers in the transition from the classroom to the job market. This ongoing problem has proved difficult to explain. Drawing on comparative data from Canada, Germany, France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, these papers go beyond examining only employment and wages and explore the effects of family background, education and training, social expectations, and crime on youth employment. This volume brings together key studies, providing detailed analyses of the difficult economic situation plaguing young workers. Why have demographic changes and additional schooling failed to resolve youth unemployment? How effective have those economic policies been which aimed to improve the labor skills and marketability of young people? And how have youths themselves responded to the deteriorating job market confronting them? These questions form the empirical and organizational bases upon which these studies are founded.

Author : Francesco Pastore
Publisher : Springer
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319101965

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The Youth Experience Gap by Francesco Pastore Pdf

“The education to work transition of young people is key to a successful work-life and to fight youth unemployment. The book provides an impressive outline of the facts and convincing insights of the potential causes. This offers a large and broader audience help to adjust properly to achieve a better life.” Klaus F. Zimmermann, IZA, Bonn, Germany This work points to the youth experience gap as a key concept to explain the meager employment opportunities and earnings many young people face.The transition from education to work remains a long dark tunnel around the world. However, this book shows that there are striking differences between countries: in Germany, the young people of today are no worse off than their adult counterparts, while in Southern European and Eastern European countries they fare 3 through 4 times worse. The current economic and financial crisis has further exacerbated the situation for young people in many advanced economies. Observers are divided as to the optimal design of youth employment policy. Liberalists believe that the market itself should address youth disadvantages. More flexible labor markets should also guarantee greater labor turnover, including temporary work, so as to allow young people to move from one job to the next until they accumulate the work experience they need to become more employable and find the right career. In contrast, other economists oppose approaches focusing on entry flexibility and temporary work, claiming that the former type helps only the most skilled and motivated target groups, while the latter only allows young people to gather generic, not job-specific work experience.

Author : Lynn S. Chancer,Martín Sánchez-Jankowski,Christine Trost
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780190685898

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Youth, Jobs, and the Future by Lynn S. Chancer,Martín Sánchez-Jankowski,Christine Trost Pdf

While overall unemployment has declined, the unemployment rate remains nearly twice as high for young people 16 to 19 years of age and nearly three times as high for those aged 20 to 24. Rates of unemployment and underemployment are nearly two to three times higher for Black and Latino youth. In Youth, Jobs, and the Future, Lynn S. Chancer, Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, and Christine Trost have gathered a cast of well-known interdisciplinary scholars to confront the persistent issues of youth unemployment and worsening socio-economic precarity in the United States. The book explores structural and cultural causes of youth unemployment, their ramifications for both native and immigrant youth, and how middle- and working-class youth across diverse races and ethnicities are affected within and outside the legal economy. A needed contribution, this book locates solutions to youth unemployment in economic and political changes as well as changes in cultural attitudes.

Author : Leonard, Pauline,Wilde, Rachel
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781529202311

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Getting In and Getting On in the Youth Labour Market by Leonard, Pauline,Wilde, Rachel Pdf

Based on up to date qualitative and ethnographic research, this book examines youth education-to-work transitions in the UK. Using the theoretical lens of a Foucauldian governmentality approach, the authors consider the ‘why’ and ‘how’ of youth employability training and demonstrate how different employability schemes planned and operationalised in diverse geographical and economic landscapes work in practice. The book examines and compares a range of employment entry route programmes and reveals the tension between employability and good quality employment, and the ways in which young people from varying social and regional backgrounds are positioned very differently within this.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264096127

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Jobs for Youth/Des emplois pour les jeunes Off to a Good Start? Jobs for Youth by OECD Pdf

This concluding report of the Jobs for Youth series analyses the situation of youth employment and unemployment in the context of the jobs crisis and identifies successful policy measures in OECD countries as well as structural reforms in education and in the labour market that can help.

Author : Richard Edwards,Paolo Garonna,Paul Ryan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349109029

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The Problem of Youth by Richard Edwards,Paolo Garonna,Paul Ryan Pdf

The book covers the vocational training and employment of young workers in various European and North American advanced economies; the forms taken by regulation of youth economic activity and the effects of its deregulation; training systems, training policies and access to skilled work in various paired-country comparisons; and the links between trade unions and young workers in two country-specific case-studies.

Author : Vanna Boffo,Monica Fedeli
Publisher : Firenze University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9788864536712

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Employability & Competences by Vanna Boffo,Monica Fedeli Pdf

The book is the final report of the researches, discussions, conversations around and about the Project PRIN Employability & Competences which took place on March 9th-­‐11th, 2017 within an International Conference at the University of Florence. It was the final event of the project PRIN2012LATR9N which aims were: «to design innovative programs for higher education, to promote personalized and learner-centered teaching and learning, to build on job competencies, to value talents to create new work opportunities, to support young adults during their employment emergency, as a response to socio economic crisis and as a citizenship action». The research activities concerned the main phases of the students’ academic life: career guidance upon entry, personalized teaching, career calling, professional vocation, profession building activities such as internships and work related experiences, and lastly job placement.

Author : Council of Europe,Jonathan Evans,Wei Shen
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 9287166579

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Youth Employment and the Future of Work by Council of Europe,Jonathan Evans,Wei Shen Pdf

"Young people are particularly vulnerable to fluctuations in economic trends. Youth employment is therefore high on the policy agenda of those concerned with promoting social inclusion. While youth-targeted employment policies tend to combine both demand-side and supply-side approaches, it is important to recognise that traditional notions of "work" have more recently been challenged and reconceptualised. The old assumptions about gender roles, "job security" and "planned careers" have thus been transformed by the profound economic and social changes of recent decades. The essays collected here were developed from papers first delivered at a research seminar on youth employment organised by the partnership between the Council of Europe and the European Commission in the field of youth. They represent a diverse and, at times, provocative collection of analytic snapshots of the position of young people on the European labour market. What emerges is a shared commitment to finding flexible responses to economic globalisation and a concomitant concern for promoting the rights, interests and welfare of young people in both training placement and in the workplace."--P. [4] of cover.

Author : Isabel Schaefer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319650852

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Political Revolt and Youth Unemployment in Tunisia by Isabel Schaefer Pdf

This book discusses youth unemployment in post-revolutionary Tunisia, paying particular attention to the so-called skill mismatch. Youth unemployment was one of the major factors triggering the Tunisian revolution, and continues to be a central socio-economic challenge. The Tunisian labour market is marked by a strong increase of higher education graduates while the economic system is dominated by sectors mainly employing a less qualified labour force. This study investigates current labour market trends, and provides insights into the underlying causes of persisting high youth unemployment. The author argues that economic crisis, difficult political conditions since 2011, and inefficient labour market policies did not foster sufficient job creation, and that special attention needs to be paid to the educational causes of the skill mismatch in youth employment in future sustainable development models.

Author : Mark Levels,Christian Brzinsky-Fay,Craig Holmes,Janine Jongbloed,Hirofumi Taki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000589825

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The Dynamics of Marginalized Youth by Mark Levels,Christian Brzinsky-Fay,Craig Holmes,Janine Jongbloed,Hirofumi Taki Pdf

This book studies young people who are Not in Education, Employment, or Training (NEET); a prime concern among policymakers. Moving past common interpretations of NEETs as a homogeneous group, it asks why some youth become NEET, whereas other do not. The authors analyse diverse school-to-work patterns of young NEETs in five typical countries and investigate the role of individual characteristics, countries’ institutions and policies, and their complex interplay. Readers will come to understand youth marginalization as a process that may occur during the transition from school, vocational college, or university to work. By studying longitudinal analyses of processes and transitions, readers will gain the crucial insight that NEETs are not equally vulnerable, and that most NEETs will find their way back to the labour market. However, they will also see that in all countries, a group of long-term NEETs exists. These exceptionally vulnerable young people are sidelined from society and the labour market. The country cases and cross-national studies illustrate that policies intended to help long-term NEETs to find their way in society are very limited. The book provides useful theoretical and empirical insights for scholars interested in the school-to-work transition and marginalized youth. It also provides helpful insights in vulnerability to policymakers who aim to combat youth marginalization. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Author : Richard A. Lacey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Career education
ISBN : UCR:31210024825166

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Building the Watertable of Youth Employability by Richard A. Lacey Pdf

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264096078

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Jobs for Youth/Des emplois pour les jeunes Off to a Good Start? Jobs for Youth by OECD Pdf

This concluding report of the Jobs for Youth series analyses the situation of youth employment and unemployment in the context of the jobs crisis and identifies successful policy measures in OECD countries as well as structural reforms in education and in the labour market that can help.

Author : John Ahier,Geoff Esland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781136289439

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Education, Training and the Future of Work I by John Ahier,Geoff Esland Pdf

A central claim of this volume is that public policy in education and training can only be properly understood if it is seen in relation to prevailing economic and employment conditions. It has become increaslingly apparent that the neo-liberal economic policies pursued by Western governments during the 1980s and 1990s have led to a growing world-wide 'work crisis'. Unemployment levels, particularly in Europe, remain persistently high, and for those in employment, job insecurity and long working hours have become the norm. The response of UK governments has been to promote 'flexibility' in employment practices while proclaiming the importance of improving skill levels through education and training. This volume challenges the adequacy of such an approach, and asks whether reliance on education and training reforms without additional political intervention in economic processes is capable of reversing current trends. Issues covered in this reader include: * the impact of globalization on employment trends * neo-liberal and neo-Keynesian approaches to employment policy * political reforms in education and training institutions * the impact of flexibilization on private life and the family. The two volumes in this series are readers for the Open University course Education, Training and the Future of Work, E837, a module of the MA in Education. The companion volume is Education, Training and the Future of Work II: Developments in Vocational Education and Training. John Ahier is Lecturer in Education at the Open University. Geoff Esland is Director of the Centre for Sociology and Social Research at the Open University and Course team Chair of E837.

Author : Canadian Council on Social Development
Publisher : Lorimer
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015030624467

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Youth and Employment Proceedings by Canadian Council on Social Development Pdf