A Note on Youth Unemployment in the EU

Floro Caroleo () and Francesco Pastore

Annals of the University of Petrosani, Economics, 2007, vol. 7, 37-52

Abstract: This short note aims to provide a theoretical framework to think of the youth unemployment problem and a classification of EU countries according to the way they address it. The key factor to explain youth unemployment is what we call the youth experience gap. To help young people to fill their experience gap and smooth school-to-work transitions every country provides a mix of policy instruments, including different degrees and types of labour market flexibility, of educational and training systems, of passive income support schemes and fiscal incentives. Five different country groups are detected whose outcomes in terms of youth unemployment are dramatically different: a) the North-European; b) the Continental European; c) the Anglo-Saxon; d) the South-European; e) new member states. The Lisbon strategy provides well-targeted guidelines, but is costly and hard to implement1. JEL CLASSIFICATION: H31, H52, I2, J13, J24, J68

Keywords: youth unemployment problem; youth experience gap; youth employment policy; Lisbon strategy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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