Jobs for Youth/Des emplois pour les jeunes: Slovak Republic 2007 [electronic resource] /
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
Paris : OECD Publishing,
2007.
Improving the performance of youth in the labour market is a crucial challenge in OECD countries facing persistent youth unemployment. Getting off to a good start facilitates integration and lays the foundation for a good career, while a poor beginning can be difficult to make up. This report surveys the main barriers to employment for young people in the Slovak Republic, and assesses the adequacy and effectiveness of existing measures to improve the transition from school to work. The report also provides a set of policy recommendations for further action by the public authorities and social partners.
TABLE OF CONTENTS -; Summary and main recommendations; Résumé et principales recommandations; Introduction; CHAPTER 1. THE CHALLENGE AHEAD; 1. Demographic and macroeconomic trends; 2. Employment; 3. Unemployment; 4. Mobility; 5. The transition from school to work; 6. A comparison of the youth labour market situations in 1995 and 2005; 7. Summary; CHAPTER 2. THE ROLE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING; 1. Improving the performance of education; 2. Changes in educational attainment; 3. Combining school and work is not common; 4. Intermediate situations between school and work
5. The education system needs further reform6. Training; 7. Summary; CHAPTER 3. BARRIERS TO YOUTH EMPLOYMENT; 1. Perceptions of employers; 2. Labour costs; 3. Employment protection legislation; 4. Are maternity protection legislation and parental leave barriersto the employment of young women?; 5. Summary; CHAPTER 4. THE ROLE OF WELFARE BENEFITSAND ACTIVATION POLICIES; 1. Child allowance, unemployment benefits and social assistance; 2. Helping young jobseekers with the search; 3. Measures to increase young workers' employability; 4. Summary; Bibliography
"Prepared by Catherine Saget with the statistical assistance of Clarisse Legendre and Thomas Manfredi"--P. 3.
Includes bibliographical references.
Improving the performance of youth in the labour market is a crucial challenge in OECD countries facing persistent youth unemployment. Getting off to a good start facilitates integration and lays the foundation for a good career, while a poor beginning can be difficult to make up. This report surveys the main barriers to employment for young people in the Slovak Republic, and assesses the adequacy and effectiveness of existing measures to improve the transition from school to work. The report also provides a set of policy recommendations for further action by the public authorities and social partners.
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Jobs for Youth/Des emplois pour les jeunes