However, there are striking differences across countries, with some performing much better than others. The reason behind the worldwide youth disadvantage can be traced back to their lower than average human capital. This may be because some youth drop out of school before achieving at least compulsory education, or because when they do achieve a high secondary or tertiary education level, they miss other key components of human capital, namely general and job-specific work experience.
General competences can be acquired through any type of even short work experience. However, job-specific competences can be acquired and used only in specific jobs and require long periods of time to accumulate, say several years, depending on the actual professional content of the job. This low level of human capital among young people correlates with, among other things, jobs mismatch, which is the difference between the competences supplied by young people and those that firms require from them.
In which countries do young people perform relatively better or worse in the labor market? SWT regimes comprise all institutions that impact the education-to-work transition, including the education and training system, labor market regulations, the organization of the welfare state, and family structures. All these factors can have important implications for labor market outcomes of young people.
The youth disadvantage in a given labor market can be assessed using different indicators. The most common is the unemployment rate, namely the share of the workforce that is actively seeking work. Nonetheless, especially in the case of young people, the unemployment rate tells only part of the story. An alternative is to look at the ratio of youth to adult unemployment rates. OECD countries tend to cluster around similar values of the youth and adult unemployment rates and, hence, also the ratio of the two.
The evolution over time of these rates is likewise similar within given groups of countries. This suggests that several countries belong to the same SWT regime.
These SWT regimes overlap with the identification of welfare state regimes—social democratic, conservative, liberal—with the addition of the so-called Latin Rim southern European countries [4] , and former socialist countries. As shown in the Illustration , young people experience a disadvantage compared to adults in every OECD country.
In most countries, the youth unemployment rate is two to three times larger than for adults. Germany and Japan are the only two countries in which young people have nearly the same risk of unemployment as adults.
These two countries have experienced the lowest relative disadvantage of young to adult people in their labor markets for decades [3]. In Anglo-Saxon countries the US, the UK, and Australia, among others , both youth and adults have a relatively low unemployment rate, though the youth rate still exceeds that of adults. For instance, many central European countries especially Germany, Austria, and Switzerland , Anglo-Saxon ones, and some Asian countries especially Japan have lower youth unemployment and inactivity rates, and higher employment rates and earnings than the rest of the EU—especially southern and eastern Europe as well as, to a lesser extent, the Scandinavian countries.
This comparison also holds true for a number of Latin American, Central Asian, and African countries. Important differences have emerged in terms of how young people in different countries have faced the recent global financial crisis.
Figure 1 compares groups of countries with similar SWT institutions from to The two panels show the youth unemployment rate and the ratio of youth to adult unemployment rates, respectively.
The youth unemployment rate shown in Panel A has increased during this period in each group of countries. The financial crisis had a particularly strong impact in the Anglo-Saxon, eastern European, and, above all, the southern European countries.
The reason for this vulnerability is probably the greater degree of labor market flexibility in these groups of countries. It should be noted that labor flexibility impacts the entire workforce in Anglo-Saxon countries, but only new hires in the eastern and southern European countries.
In these latter two groups, labor flexibility has been achieved only recently through the so-called two-tier reforms, which generally only affect new entrants into the labor market, without changing the contracts of the majority of the existing workforce. These reforms essentially make it more convenient for firms to hire workers on temporary contracts. Temporary contracts, in turn, are the first to be discontinued during economic crises, simply because the easiest way for management to reduce staff numbers is by not renewing temporary contracts upon their natural expiration date.
Thanks to this marked increase in temporary contracts, firms find it much easier to apply the so-called last in, first out LIFO principle, usually at the expense of young people in particular. Nonetheless, the post-crisis recovery is well underway in the Anglo-Saxon and eastern European countries, whereas youth unemployment remains extremely high in southern European countries. A persistent slow growth has played a significant role in keeping youth unemployment high in this last group of countries.
Figure 1 , Panel B looks at the ratio of youth to adult unemployment rates. Each group, with the exception of the southern European countries, saw an increase in this ratio in the aftermath of the financial crisis. The reason that the ratio in southern European countries does not appear to have been affected is because the crisis has been so deep and prolonged in that region that it has also impacted the adults to a much larger extent than elsewhere; indeed, the fact that adults have been affected so significantly is often seen as an indicator of the depth of the crisis in these countries [5].
By , the Anglo-Saxon countries had returned to their pre-crisis ratio levels or even below. This is likely related to the fact that both firing and hiring are easier than in the other country groups.
Another typical aspect of youth behavior is that they tend to seek jobs in a haphazard and discontinuous way. They are particularly affected by news about the labor market outlook and tend to get more easily discouraged than other demographic groups when the average unemployment rate is high.
Since many young people are not actively seeking work, they tend to be classified more often as inactive rather than unemployed, but, in fact, they are still seeking a job. NEET accounts for the tendency of young people to move more frequently between different labor market statuses, including education and training.
Moreover, in recent times, young people are increasingly involved in insecure, very-short-term labor market experiences, especially in those countries where labor flexibility has been achieved by liberalizing temporary work arrangements. In fact, in most countries, but especially in southern and eastern Europe, many young people are hired on short fixed-term contracts.
This trend has led to calls for labor market reforms aimed at introducing a single type of permanent labor contract, which would entail less employment protection and lower litigation costs, and be achieved through the definition of pre-defined severance pay as well as lower fiscal and social security costs than are currently associated with fixed-term contracts [6]. The Italian Jobs Act of is one reform that moves in this direction. Last, but not least, another commonly observed fact is that youth labor markets around the world are segmented.
Some young people, especially those coming from rich families, tend to experience a smooth SWT. They achieve the highest educational level they wish and soon after find the jobs best suited for them. On the other hand, there are segments of young people who remain at a constant disadvantage in the labor market.
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Our approach to youth unemployment focuses on three areas: training, job matching and business growth. We determine which methods to use based on the contexts and challenges within individual communities.
In cases when we use all of these methods, we begin with training in technical and soft skills to build capacity and link young people to businesses and jobs, we then extend our programs to promote the growth and success of these businesses.
A market assessment allows us to understand the needs of potential employers, so we can help ensure the skills young people are developing will match the needs of local economies. One of these young people, Laith, 23, was sporadically working agriculture and odd jobs to make ends meet.
He was also growing increasingly discouraged about his future — until a Mercy Corps vocational training in solar panel installation empowered him with a new outlook. More jobs equal more chances for youth to earn income, contribute to their communities and build a better future, for themselves and their country.
In the Middle East and Africa, our Youth Impact Labs identify and test creative, technology-enabled solutions to tackle global youth unemployment, accelerating job creation so every young person has the opportunity for dignified, purposeful work. Research tells us that youth employment programming is often most effective when layered with other holistic interventions such as mentoring and transferable skills. In areas of the world where tensions around access to opportunities can arise, we work alongside the community to create opportunities for young people.
In Kenya, for example, high unemployment rates are discouraging. So we engaged young people in communities around Kenya to create opportunities for themselves. With young people and local mentors, Mercy Corps developed a system of youth bunges , the Swahili word for parliament. In , we carried out 51 employment programs in 32 countries, including 22 highly fragile countries. Together, our global team reached , young people. Here are a few more examples of what Mercy Corps is doing around the world to address youth unemployment and help young people build better, brighter futures for themselves and their families.
In Guatemala, we are engaging youth at more than 28 schools to diminish violence in urban communities, providing more than 14, students with the opportunity to engage in cultural, educational and employment related activities. We are reaching more than 15, youth 57 percent girls at our youth centers in Iraq, where they receive psychosocial support, educational opportunities focused on skill building, and access to internships and apprenticeships. Since June , we have provided access to safe spaces, support and mentorship for more than 38, adolescents and youth 52 percent girls across the country.
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