Evaluation of the economic costs associated to the neet youth in Brazil

Maitê Rimekká Shirasu () and Ronaldo de Albuquerque e Arraes ()

Brazilian Journal of Political Economy, 2020, vol. 40, issue 1, 161-182

Abstract: The existence of millions of youths remain in the NEET status brings severe implications for the society and for the economy. Thus, this paperfocuseson the main costs associated with the neet youthidleness through thePropensity Score Matching. The results reveal that the neetyouths accounted for a cost of 0.6% of the GDP in 2015. Considering this significant annual cost and the increasing amount of neet youths in the last years, there is to be claimed for policies that hinder such a growing path in order to avoid severe economic and social losses in the longrun. JEL Classification: E24; I28; J17; J18; C54.

Keywords: Neet youth; economic costs; policy evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://centrodeeconomiapolitica.org.br/repojs/ind ... article/view/131/119 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ekm:repojs:v:40:y:2020:i:1:p:161-182:id:131

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Brazilian Journal of Political Economy from Center of Political Economy
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Brazilian Journal of Political Economy (Brazil) ().