Youth Employment and Joblessness in Advanced Countries
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child development
class
crime
economics
economy
education
employment
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family
femininity
france
gender
germany
job market
joblessness
labor
living arrangements
marketability
masculinity
men
minimum wage
nonfiction
poverty
school
skills
success
sweden
training
unemployment
united kingdom
wages
women
youth
Product details
- ISBN 9780226056586
- Weight: 794g
- Dimensions: 16 x 24mm
- Publication Date: 15 Mar 2000
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The economic status of young people has declined significantly over the past two decades, despite a variety of programmes designed to aide 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 labour 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.
