Youth Unemployment in Europe: What to Do about It?

Werner Eichhorst, Holger Hinte and Ulf Rinne

No 65, IZA Policy Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Youth unemployment has become a severe economic and societal problem in many European countries. This paper gives an overview of the current situation and assesses different policy options. It emphasizes the role of stronger intra-EU mobility of young workers, policies to make vocational training systems more effective and to adjust employment protection as well as activating labor market policies. However, short-term remedies are not available, despite the fact that the EU has announced massive European initiatives. Rather, European countries should take the opportunity of the crisis to implement forward-looking structural reforms.

Keywords: fixed-term contracts; Europe; vocational training; youth unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J13 J24 J64 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 22 pages
Date: 2013-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-eur, nep-lab, nep-lma and nep-ltv
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Published - published in: Intereconomics, 2013, 48 (4), 230-235 [Details & Download]

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