Title: Tackling youth unemployment / edited by Morley Gunderson and Francesca Fazio.
Authors: Gunderson, Morley, 1945-; Fazio, Francesca,; Gunderson, Morley, 1945-; Fazio, Francesca,
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Press Ltd.,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Youth Employment; Unemployment
Abstract: "Youth have always had higher unemployment rates – about twice or more than the average – as they are usually the last to be hired in an expansion and the first to be let go in a recession. In addition, young people engage in extensive job searching in their early years, and this can imply considerable job churning as both youth and employers look for a good match. This highlights the importance of facilitating the school-to-work transition and having early interventions to assist such youth before negative conditions set in. It also highlights the potential importance of determining those young people most “at risk” of long-term unemployment, and of targeting or streaming them into programmes that will yield the largest incremental net benefits given their characteristics. Unemployed youth without previous work experience often are not eligible for unemployment insurance benefits when they first enter the labour market. When they do receive job search assistance, they often face a bewildering array of programmes that are available to assist them, often with little guidance to help them select the programs that best meet their needs. Consequently, ensuring that today’s youth do not become a “lost generation” is an urgent matter. George Bernard Shaw once said that it is too bad that “youth is wasted on the young”, implying that youth do not realize the opportunities they have as youth and only see them as they get older. There is a danger, however, that many of today’s youth may be never have those opportunities and hence not even see them with hindsight. This book and others in the ADAPT Labour Studies Book-Series are intended to deal with these challenges, to make sure that youth is not wasted on the young."--Publisher's website.
Contents: Foreword / Morley Gunderson and Francesca Fazio -- Young workers in recessionary times: a caveat to (continental) Europe to reconstruct its labour law? / Michele Tiraboschi -- The legal protection of unemployed young people in Hungary / József Hajdù -- Betting on training to reduce youth unemployment: precarious work and economic recovery measures / Carmen Solís Prieto -- The right to organise: what benefits young workers? / Ricardo Barona Betancourt -- The lump of labour fallacy and youth unemployment: implications of an ageing population / Helga Hejny -- Social dialogue and collective bargaining responses to youth unemployment / Paolo Tomassetti and Maria Tuttobene -- Social protection and youth employment in Spain / Antonio Márquez Prieto -- Challenges of youth employment in Hungary: the employment relationship between school cooperatives and their members / Attila Kun and Balázs Rossu -- Tackling youth unemployment in Georgia / Zakaria Shvelidze -- The quest for an inclusive labour market in Africa / Mesele Araya -- Youth unemployment and the school-to-work transition in Africa: the Ethiopian perspective / Hiruy Wubie Gebreegziabher -- The employment situation of young people in Mexico / Elena Rueda Rodríguez -- Youth and apprenticeships in Canada / Morley Gunderson and Harry Krashinsky -- Human capital development in Singapore / Chris Leggett -- The managers of tomorrow: how prepared do students feel by universities in terms of CSR? / Anabel Ternès and Philippe Prigge -- Education and the school-to-work transition: comparing policies and practices in the Greater Mekong sub-region (GMS) / Visarut Tangchuang -- Youth self-employment and emerging software development industry in Sub-Saharan Africa: curricula and policy imperatives / Benadeth Ndidiamaka Ezekoye -- Education and transition to work: promoting practical intelligence / Giuditta Alessandrini.