Young people in Europe : labour markets and citizenship /

In a period of rapid social and economic change, labour markets are undergoing major transformations. This book explores the changing fortunes of young people in Europe's flexible and precarious labour markets and the range of policies that are being developed to help them deal with the problem...

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Other Authors: Bradley, Harriet, Hoof, J. J. B. M. van
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2005
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Jacques van Hoof and Harriet Bradley
  • 1. Youth in the labour market : citizenship or exclusion? / Herwig Reiter and Gary Craig
  • 2. Social protection policies for young people : a cross-national comparison / Gill Jones
  • 3. Young people and their contemporary labour market values / Wim Plug and Manuela du Bois-Reymond
  • 4. Youth unemployment and job-seeking bahaviour in Europe / José Luis Álvaro and Alicia Garrido Luque
  • 5. Winners and losers : young people in the 'new economy' / Harriet Bradley
  • 6. Young people in the labour market in Hungary and Slovenia : problems and perspectives / Klára Fóti, Martina Trbanc and Miroljub Ignjatović
  • 7. Excluded youth or young citizens? : ethnicity, young people and the labour market in three EU countries / Gary Craig, Hans Dietrich and Jerome Gautié
  • 8. Activation or alienation : youth unemployment within different European welfare communities / Jan Carle and Torild Hammer
  • 9. Vocational education and the integration of young people in the labour market : the case of the Netherlands / Jacques van Hoof
  • 10. Young people's transitions between education and the labour market : the Italian case / Francesca Bianchi
  • 11. Integration into work through active labour market policies in different welfare state regimes / Ira Malmberg-Heimonen and Ilse Julkunen
  • Conclusion : fractured transitions : the changing context of young people's labour market situations in Europe / Harriet Bradley and Jacques van Hoof.